no wifi so need to buy a usb to Ethernet to work around first and see if the wifi work, the isntaller is smooth not like MacOs 26 slow , tired see all tomorrow sleep

I can't find any information that it was solved in official opencore documentation or anything.

Hi, can anyone help me install macOS on my Dell Latitude 3420? The OpenCore program says it’s incompatible due to my GPU, but a kext for it actually exists—please help!

With same process. Tahoe did not boot

Managed to get the latest tahoe running on my unsupported igpu! almost everything worked just fine.

The kext i used (https://github.com/JulioNectar/Hackintosh-XPS13Plus-IrisXe-Tahoe) was optimized for 26.7.1, which could explain the cursor stutters i had, although i'm not the only one having this issue

Not having acceleation during setup is painful but i'd say it was worth a try! could see this coming a long way

hi everyone, i'm having some trouble with mounting my EFI to the partition since the windows 11 one is too small and i cant really find any way to edit it. i have tried creating a new EFI but the bios doesnt pick it up automatically. pls help i almost got an alder lake system to fully work

Wanting to try out Sonoma or Sequoia, even without acceleration, but I can't really confirm if it can. Lotta websites saying different things.

(Information is in the CPU-Z window at the gallery, did this to not get warned by Reddit for 'not complying with Rule 4)

Thanks to the legend, u/War_Obvious, I was able to refactor his Tiger Lake XPS13 repo to support the 1235U Iris Xe in my Thinkpad E14 Gen 4 i5.

What works:

GPU - Full Acceleration and Metal

Wifi - Airportitlwm kext supported

Blueooth

Webcam

Keyboard,Trackpad: Full support

What doesn't work:

Audio - Currently trying to make my own driver

GPU Artefacts - When loading preview, images are blocky with patches missing, unable to adjust brightness and apply night shift, no sleep etc. There's instructions for some of this on the repo so it's just a case of getting around to it.

iCloud - Unable to sign in and verify - Low priority for now but likely just a simple SMBIOS fix.

Will share my EFI repo once it's up!

have asus tuf f15 fx507zc4
• intel i5-12500h (igpu iris xe eu80)
• nvidia 3050mobile
• wifi 6 intel ax201
tried with both nootedgreen/nullmoth(1401), getting stacked in exitbs:start, tried to fix with booter quirks, nothing. tried with ai, 0 result.. took a break, just want to know, this attempts worth it?

ps sr for my english if sounds bad, not native speaker /
alder lake*

When I download macOS using nullmoth 1401, this error appears during the download process. what to do?

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Hi everyone,

I'm running macOS 26 on my Lenovo Legion 5i using OpenCore, 1401, and NullMoth. I'm experiencing noticeably worse performance than on Windows 11, not just in benchmarks but also during basic everyday tasks.

The main issue: macOS feels sluggish despite my hardware. Opening System Settings for the first time can take several seconds, settings icons and sections sometimes load slowly, and opening Terminal can briefly trigger the spinning rainbow cursor. The overall UI responsiveness feels far below what I would expect from an i9-14900HX.

Audio and video stuttering have already been resolved after switching browsers and updating macOS and the drivers. However, the general UI sluggishness and low CPU benchmark scores remain.

System specifications

Component| Details

Laptop| Lenovo Legion 5i 16IRX9 Gen 9

CPU| Intel Core i9-14900HX

GPU| NVIDIA 4060 Laptop, 8GB VRAM

RAM| 32GB DDR5 5600MHz

Storage| 1TB NVMe SSD

macOS| macOS 26.7.1 (Build 25G241)

Bootloader/setup| OpenCore + 1401 / NullMoth

NVIDIA driver| NullMoth 2.6.2

CPU benchmark comparison — Geekbench 7

Results from the same laptop running Windows 11 and macOS:

Test| Windows 11 | macOS 26

Single-Core| 2,509 | 1,145

Multi-Core| 19,330 | 9,915

These are substantial differences, and they seem consistent with the sluggish experience I'm getting in macOS.

GPU benchmark comparison — Geekbench

OS | GPU | Graphics API | Score

Windows 11 | 4060 Laptop | Vulkan | 94,108

macOS 26 | 4060 Laptop| Metal | 6,830

Note: These GPU scores use different graphics APIs, so they aren't directly comparable. I'm including them as reference data, not claiming a specific percentage of GPU performance loss.

The NVIDIA driver is installed and its kexts appear to be loaded. Geekbench detects the 4060 and reports Metal 3 support.

What I've checked so far

- "machdep.cpu.brand_string" reports Intel Core i9-14900HX.

- "machdep.cpu.core_count" and "machdep.cpu.thread_count" both report 32.

- "machdep.xcpm.mode" returns "1".

- "pmset -g therm" reports "CPU_Speed_Limit = 100" and "CPU_Available_CPUs = 32".

- "CpuTopologyRebuild.kext" is enabled.

- "ProvideCurrentCpuInfo = True".

- "ctrsmt=full" is present in my boot arguments.

- "X86PlatformPlugin" appears to be active.

- An idle "top" sample showed approximately 94% CPU idle, around 20GB RAM used, 12GB unused, and no swap activity.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Yup, as you read from the title. I managed (After hours) to get El Capitan installed on here in a "kind of stable" state.

Specs:

- CPU & GPU: Intel Core i5-7440HQ, paired with integrated HD 630 graphics. (Spoofed as a HD 530).

- Memory: 12GB of DDR4.

- WiFi Card & BT: Intel Dual-band AC 8265NGW.

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Notes:

- Occasionally, it has a tendency to kernel panic after waking from sleep for a long periods of time. I still have yet to find the root cause of this.

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A lot of people say its necessary to disable HyperThreading (HT) to boot hackintosh on Intel 12th gen or alder lake CPUs. But on my Acer Aspire A324-51 there is no option in the BIOS to disable the HT I've even tried using setup_var.efi to change the 0x05 variable for HT to 0x00 in CpuSetup but my laptop firmware has write protection. Is there any way to run hackintosh on alder lake CPU without disabling HT?

I don’t know what to do i keep running into this when trying to download using the nullmoth setup.
LOQ 15IRH8 running an i5-12450H and 2050

I was wondering if anyone has ever attempted to get the actual, original Apple tvOS running on non-Apple hardware, particularly Android TV devices.

I know Hackintosh makes it possible to run macOS on non-Apple PCs, so I was wondering if a similar approach could theoretically work for tvOS.

I've also come across projects like HackiOS and UniXNU, which explore running Apple's OS components or XNU-based systems on non-Apple hardware.

Could a similar approach be possible with tvOS, using hardware compatibility work, kernel modifications, bootloader research, or some form of platform spoofing to make it behave like it's running on an Apple TV?

If it's fundamentally impossible, what exactly is the main blocker? Is it Apple's secure boot chain, hardware-specific drivers, kernel compatibility, or something else?

Has anyone researched this, attempted it, or found any relevant projects or proof-of-concepts? I'd love to know if there's any technical research on this, even if nobody has successfully booted it yet.

I haven’t hackintoshed before at all so this is a first for me, unsure if I’m supposed to use whatever nootedred or opencore simplify is or what I should send, so tell me more

AMD Ryzen 5 7535u
AMD Radeon 660M
256 NVMe
16GB DDR5

Sequoia 15.8.1 with Windows 11 Pro 26H1 on Primary SSD. GPU Acceleration works, but still stuff to fix like bluetooth and sound.

Hi everyone

I have successfully installed macOS High Sierra on my Hackintosh PC with the following hardware:

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 4GB DDR3 (GK208)

RAM: 6GB DDR3

Storage: 250GB SSD

macOS: High Sierra 10.13

The system boots normally, and macOS High Sierra is installed successfully. I am interested in sharing my experience with this hardware and learning from others using similar Hackintosh configurations.

Thanks!

I have successfully installed macOS Catalina on my Hackintosh PC with the following hardware:

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 4GB DDR3 (GK208)

RAM: 6GB DDR3

Storage: 250GB SSD

macOS: Catalina

The system boots normally, and macOS Catalina is installed successfully. My graphics acceleration is working well, so I am sharing this simple installation post for anyone using similar hardware.

Thanks!

It's great to see so much new development going on! Feel free to post links to other new repos/forkks that I may have missed.

https://github.com/5T33Z0/OCLP4Hackintosh/blob/main/docs/Forks.md

Hey guys,

So I’ve been messing around with an old Qualcomm Atheros Wi-Fi card on my Hackintosh, and I decided to try doing something about the lack of proper macOS support.
I’m working on Ath10kMac, based on the original project by jonasw8.

GitHub: https://github.com/thekunalthakur/Ath10kMac

I’m testing it on a Dell Inspiron 15-3567 with a QCA9377 running macOS Sequoia.

Some progress so far:

Got the kext loading.
Wi-Fi scanning and connecting are working on my test machine.
Internet traffic is working too, on the networks I’ve tested.
Made some changes around board data and WPA2 compatibility.

It’s still very much a work in progress, though. Not claiming this will work on every Atheros card or every Hackintosh setup. There are still limitations, and I need more people testing it on different hardware.

Anyone here using a QCA9377 or QCA6174?
Would be awesome if you could check out the repo and share your experience. Even if it doesn’t work, logs and feedback would help a lot.

Also, if anyone has experience with macOS Wi-Fi drivers, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what could be improved.
Just trying to see how far we can push this. 😅
Cheers!

Hi everyone! I'm trying to boot macOS Recovery on an older PC, but OpenCore hangs before showing its boot picker. I'd appreciate help identifying the cause.

Hardware

Motherboard: Gigabyte H81M-S1 Rev. 2.1 (Intel H81 chipset)

CPU: Intel Pentium G3240 (Haswell, 2 cores)

RAM: 6 GB DDR3

GPU: Intel integrated graphics; no dedicated GPU

Storage: HDD

BIOS version: FH

What I'm trying to do

I'm trying to boot macOS Internet Recovery from a USB drive using OpenCore. The USB contains BaseSystem.dmg and BaseSystem.chunklist, downloaded using OpenCore's macrecovery.py.

OpenCore setup

OpenCore version: 1.0.8

DEBUG build of OpenCore.efi

USB formatted as FAT32

Clover is also installed on the USB; I'm launching a separate copy of OpenCore named BOOTx64OC.efi so I don't overwrite Clover's bootloader.

ocvalidate reports No issues found for my original config.plist.

I verified that the OpenCore.efi on the USB has the same SHA-256 hash as the copy from the downloaded release.

Problem

When I launch OpenCore from UEFI Shell, the DEBUG log stops at:

OC: Starting OpenCore...

OC: Booter path EFI\OC\OpenCore.efi

OCFS: Trying to locate filesystem on CEAAC198 CEBA9898

OCFS: Filesystem DP EFI\OC\OpenCore.efi

OC: Absolute booter path EFI\OC\OpenCore.efi

OC: Storage root EFI\OC\OpenCore.efi

OCST: Missing vault data, ignoring...

OC: OcMiscEarlyInit...

OC: Loaded configuration of 40947 bytes

OC: Got 2 drivers

OC: Watchdog status is 1

The system then hangs indefinitely with a blinking underscore. It does not reach the OpenCore picker.

Things I've already checked

Misc → Security → Vault is set to Optional.

Misc → Boot → ShowPicker is True.

UEFI → Drivers has HfsPlus.efi and OpenRuntime.efi enabled.

ocvalidate reports no configuration validation errors.

I tested a generic Sample.plist as a diagnostic. It did not reach the picker either; it returned to Clover after I changed its Vault setting to Optional.

I also tried setting Booter → Quirks → RebuildAppleMemoryMap to True, but it did not resolve the issue.

The original config has been restored.

My questions

What could cause OpenCore to stop immediately after Watchdog status is 1 on this hardware?

Is the Pentium G3240 supported well enough to boot macOS Recovery, or would an i5-4460 be a better choice?

Are there specific BIOS settings, OpenCore quirks, or configuration problems I should check next?

I'm a beginner with OpenCore, so I'd appreciate specific troubleshooting steps. I can provide my config.plist and additional logs if needed.

Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6YlcEzDXIbZcq0wzcv6NRVgtB53ibSq/view?usp=drivesdk

My config.plist

Successfully installed Sequoia 15.8.1 with Metal support on an Intel 12th gen + Nvidia R T X 4070 setup using NullMoth's Nvidia driver & 1401 app.

Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700F

RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 3200Mhz in Dual Channel

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce R T X 4070 12GB

Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B760M-PLUS D4

WiFi: TP-Link USB AX adapter, RTL8852AU (Working, experimental rtw89 port)

BT: None at the moment

Ethernet: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE (Working)

SSD: KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G3 1TB

Bootloader: OpenCore 1.0.8, SMBIOS MacPro7,1

Audio (ALC897), USB (custom map), sleep, FileVault and CPU power management all work. HDMI/DP audio through the GPU doesn't work yet, it's a known issue on the driver side. The Wi-Fi adapter needed a port of the Linux rtw89 driver plus the OCLP wireless patch, and it's only stable at USB 2 speed, but it shows up as native Wi-Fi in the menu bar.

Special thanks to NullMoth

Even DRAM is controllable now.