Lenovo Ideapad Z500 Hackintosh
REMEMBER TO CHANGE YOUR SMBIOS USING genSMBIOS
NOTE: THIS GIT IS LIKELY TO BE ABANDONED AS THE LAPTOP USED FOR THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
Spec:
- CPU : Intel Core i5-3230M
- GPU : Intel HD Graphics 4000
- CHIPSET : Intel Panther Point HM76, Intel Ivy Bridge
- Touchpad : ELAN input device (LPC)
- Keyboard : HID Keyboard Device Standard PS/2 Keyboard
- AudioCodec : Realtek ALC269 @ Intel Panther Point PCH - High Definition Audio Controller
- WIFI : DW1510 BCM94322HM8L
- Ethernet : Realtek RTL8139/810x Fast Ethernet Adapter
- Drive : YGC-SA3-120G YinChu SATA3 120GB SSD
Small note:
- If you have the same spec, Mojave is the best option imo. Catalina and Big Sur is usable (and beautiful) but they sometimes feel laggy.
- Also, I need to play CS1.6 so Mojave it is!
Version installed:
Tutorial
Preparation:
- MAC OS (offline or online) installer USB
- Minitool Partition Wizard (FREE)
- Explorer++ (FREE)
- EFI folder can be found in the Release section
Installation:
- Assign letter the EFI partition
- Open Minitool Partition Wizard on the installer USB
- Find FAT32 partition (~100MB) on your USB drive
- Right click on the partition, select "Assign letter", and choose the letter (e.g I:)
- Click APPLY
- Copy the EFI folder to the installer USB
- Open Explorer++
- Open EFI partition (I: aforementioned)
- Copy and paste the EFI folder into the partition
- Restart and boot to the USB.
- Open Disk Utility
- Erase the drive or partition you wish to install Mac OS on
- Install MAC OS
Adding Opencore boot option(Thanks to @big-stiff):
- If your BIOS supports adding new boot entry, you can set with the path below
EFI/Boot/BOOTx64.efi (Currently using) or EFI/OC/Opencore.efi
- If your BIOS doesnt, you can easily add by using BOOTICE ( Windows required ) Detailed instruction will soon be provided!
If you have any question, feel free to contact me:
- Email: [email protected]
- Discord: ZooLs#5693
- Reddit: zoolsUwU
I will try my best to answer your question.