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(A really good & compatible notebook for hackintoshing) Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Gen (20KH and 20KG) (Working from High Sierra 10.13.6 to Ventura 13 - Windows 11) Left side (2x USB-C TB3, Ethernet dongle, USB-A 3.0, HDMI) Right side (combo jack, USB-A 3.0, kensington lock) Specifications: BIOS: v1.50 CPU: i5-8250U (Kaby Lake-R, 1.6 GHz up to 3.4 GHz, Quad-Core) and i7-8650U (Kaby Lake-R, 2.1 GHz up to 4.2 GHz, Quad-Core) GPU: Intel UHD 620 Display: FHD 1920x1080 (non-touch IPS) 14” 300 nit, WQHD 2560x1440 (non-touch) 14" 300 nit RAM: 16 GB (2x8) DDR3 2133MHz Audio: ALC3286 SSD: Original Samsung PM SSD replaced to KINGSTON SA2000M81000G (1 TB NVMe) (~2400 MB/s read, ~2000 MB/s write) WiFi & Bluetooth: Intel AC-8265 M.2 (replaced to BCM94360CS2 with NGFF M.2 adapter) Fingerprint reader HD webcam Multigesture SMBus/RMI Synaptics touchpad with 3 buttons 2 level Backlight keyboard 57 Whr Battery Connectors: 2x USB-Type C - Thunderbolt 3 2x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (1x USB charging) 1x Ethernet dongle (Intel I219V4 PCI-e) 1x HDMI 3.5mm combo-jack audio BIOS settings: Secure Boot: Disabled UEFI: Enabled CSM: Disabled Virtualization, VT-d: Enabled Hyper-Threading: Enabled Anti-Theft: Disabled Intel SGX: Software Controlled Disable Fingerprint at I/O Thunderbolt device: Enabled For Thunderbolt 3 hot-plug (higher power consumption): Thunderbolt BIOS Assist Mode: Disabled Security Level: No security Support in Pre Boot Environment: Disabled For Thunderbolt 3 without hot-plug (lower power consumption but need to plug your device before boot) Thunderbolt BIOS Assist Mode: Enabled What is working: AirDrop, Handoff (only with Broadcom cards) iCloud, Messages, App Store, FaceTime, etc. Instant WiFi Hotspot with iPhone (only with original Apple Broadcom cards, such as BCM94360CS2) Intel UHD 620 (QE/CI, hardware decode/encode, VP9, HDMI) Sound (incl. combo-jack, HDMI out) Thunderbolt 3 (with hot-plug support) USB ports Ethernet dongle TrackPad, TrackPoint and Keyboard (incl. native multi-gestures, FN keys) FileVault Battery (~0.5 W when TB3 hot-plug is disabled, ~2W when enabled) Sleep Power Management Webcam SD card reader External Monitor connecting with USB-C External Monitor using HDMI What isn’t working: Fingerprint reader (disabled in BIOS) Hibernation I think it's fixable, but just not worth the trouble for me. Just use normal sleep (hibernationmode=3) like on real MacBooks Original Samsung PM NVMe SSD Causing kernel panics. Not fixable, replace your drive with an aftermarket one. I used KINGSTON A2000, WDC PC SN720 but feel free to choose anything other than Samsung Here is a list about what to avoid: https://dortania.github.io/Anti-Hackintosh-Buyers-Guide/Storage.html Issues: Although we have OpenIntelWireless for Intel WiFi, it’s quite unusable in my case (v1.1.0). It’s really slow (4 MB/s) and disconnecting quite often, the ping is also really high sometimes (spiking up to ~3000ms when pinging google.com). Sleep also breaks the connection. For reconnecting I have to reboot the whole system. Bluetooth quality is also really bad unfortunately, also disconnecting quite often. I suggest everyone to just get a compatible original Apple BCM94360CS2 with an adapter for OOB support, excellent speed, Instant Hotspot, AirDrop & Handoff, Universal Control support and for best Bluetooth quality (you can buy these cards from ebay, Aliexpress or Amazon) With BCM94360NG I have a strange issue where the speed/rate is capped at 434 mbit/s ~30 MB/s and can only reach 866 mbit/s ~60 MB/s if I RESTART directly from Windows. Unfortunately isn't fixable, so if you really need high speed just go for the BCM94360CS2 instead, or BCM94352Z (with AirportBrcmFixup.kext) HDMI isn't working if you start the system with plugged in, disconnect before start and reconnect it after macOS is up and running HDMI breaks after sleep/wake, need to re-plug Audio sometimes just goes blank at random, combo-jack also doesn't recognise the combo-jack sometimes (garbled sound output): A sleep/wake solves the problem most of the time, issue needs to be debugged and reported to the Acidanthera team Thunderbolt 3 (I only have an ADT-Link R43SG-TB3 device with RX 470, so maybe other devices are good, but I don't have more TB3 devices to test with): If you disconnect the eGPU the notebook will freeze (high CPU usage), you need to restart After some testing on other machines as well I think this is related to the ADT-Link itself as macOS can't detect it as a normal eGPU like the Razer Core X, but a 3rd party generic PCIe to TB3 adapter After sleep hot-plug is not working with the TB3 eGPU (device not detected) Workaround: Plug the TB3 in, put the notebook into sleep, wake it up. It may fail sometimes, try it again if that is the case Not tested: WWAN (no equipment) Installation: Download the bootpack zip Download the Release from GitHub -> https://github.com/kushwavez/lenovo-x1c6-clover-efi Create an installer with any method you know Mac: App Store - createinstallmedia, gibMacOS Windows: Use my guide to create an Internet Recovery for Monterey (should work with Ventura, choose the correct version) You can use gibMacOS for older versions of MacOS Copy my bootpack folder to the USB's EFI folder Boot with the Installer USB If you stuck in boot, reboot and in the Clover bootloader select "config_debug.plist" -> you'll have more informations about the freeze To disable SIP boot with "config_debug.plist" Post Installation: Generate a new Serial Number with Clover Configurator.app for yourself (open up your config.plist with CC then -> SMBIOS -> Serial Number -> Generate New) Windows 10 dual-boot (on one drive): My GUIDE to create a dual-boot with Windows 10 (or 11) on the same drive: Some pictures: macOS Ventura 13.6.6 PCI Device list Working Trackpad Original Apple BCM94360CS2 WiFi card fitted. Be careful about it and make sure that the card does not make any contact with the NVMe drive! Useful Applications for Mac: EFI Mountain Show -> To easily mount your EFI Clover Configurator -> To easily manage your config.plist https://mackie100projects.altervista.org/download-clover-configurator/ PlistEditPro -> Advanced plist editor https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/plisteditpro/ XPlist -> Free CrossPlatform .plist editor https://github.com/ic005k/Xplist iStat Menus -> To monitoring your devices https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/ Boom 3D -> To significantly increase your audio quality https://www.globaldelight.com/boom/ TextMate -> a basic code editor just like Notepad++ on Windows https://macromates.com BBedit -> More advanced text editor https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ Modified Wineskin to run basic Windows 32-bit or 64-bit (or DX9 games) applications on Catalina (and higher)-> https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/fobx5t/i_didnt_want_to_boot_windows_every_time_when_i/ CrossOver 21 -> Run DirectX 11 applications on Catalina=< https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover/ MaciASL -> View/Edit your .aml, .dsl files https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-maciasl-patchmatic/downloads/ Xiasl ->CrossPlatform .aml/.dsl editor https://github.com/ic005k/Xiasl Hackintool -> All useful info, tools in one place https://github.com/headkaze/Hackintool IORegistryExplorer V2.1 -> To view your IO tables https://github.com/vulgo/IORegistryExplorer/releases/tag/v2.1 App Cleaner -> To delete your apps with caches https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ Intel Power Gadget -> To see your frequencies https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget Carbon Copy Cloner -> Advanced macOS drive backup utility https://bombich.com Commander One -> A Total Commander alternative for macOS https://mac.eltima.com/file-manager.html Useful Applications for Windows: Total Commander -> To easily manage EFI https://www.ghisler.com mountvol b: /s -> To mount your system drive EFI EasyUEFI -> To manage boot orders and any bootloaders with ease https://www.easyuefi.com/index.html MiniTool Partition Wizard -> To mount your USB EFI, and manage other drives https://www.minitool.com/partition-manager/ Notepad++ -> Basic code editor for all type of files https://notepad-plus-plus.org gibMacOS -> A python script for downloading/creating macOS Internet Recovery USB from Windows (working internet is needed when installing) https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS XPlist -> Free CrossPlatform .plist editor https://github.com/ic005k/Xplist Xiasl ->CrossPlatform .aml/.dsl editor https://github.com/ic005k/Xiasl Credit for tylernguyen for his hard work for creating SSDTs for Thunderbolt 3, he did an excellent job Notes: You should use Thunderbolt BIOS Assist mode to lower your power consumption, but you'll lose hot-plug If you're using KINGSTON NVMe SSD like me, you should not use NVMeFix.kext. It's causing stutters and kernel panics. Only use it if necessary Changelog: 2024.05.03: Updated Clover to v5158, removed AppleBacklightSmooter.kext (Does not work anymore), added SMCLightSensor.kext, updated to Ventura 13.6.6, updated Kexts 2022.01.06: Updated Clover to v5143, updated SMBIOS with FirmwareFeaturesMask, updated kexts, updated to Monterey 12.1 2021.06.03: Updated Clover to v5136, deleted SSDT-HPET no need for that, updated some of the kexts, cleaned up config.plist 2021.04.19: Added BCM94360CS2 to the list, working OOB with ~75 MB/s (in my case), updated IntelMausi.kext -> Fixes an issue where at saturation (~125 MB/s) the Ethernet started stuttering 2021.04.12: Updated Clover to v5133: Fixes an issue where if FileVault is enabled, macOS OTA Installer entry cannot be seen 2021.03.09: Fixed TB3 Hot-Plug, deleted AirPortBrcmFixup.kext (not needed with BCM94360NG), Updated VoodooRMI.kext & VoodooPS2Controller.kext, updated Clover to v5131 2021.02.09: EFI moved to GitHub: it's easier to push minor(and major) updates 2021.01.27: Updated to Clover v5129 -> Recovery is now working 2021.01.24: Downgraded WhateverGreen from v1.4.6 to v1.4.5. v1.4.6 caused kernel panic with Installer USB's (failed to route the function IsTypeCOnlySystem). 2021.01.21: Fixed TouchPad, TrackPoint: Fixed not loading VoodooRMI & VoodooPS2, removed BrcmPatchRAM, not needed for BCM94360NG, updated bootpack 2021.01.13: Initial upload

Yes and thanks for reminding me his name and I did check your machine as well very powerfull one but mine been a old generation thats my point of this thread and the time that I been able w/ the help of other not my credit to be using this type of CPU running MacOSx. Oh by the way Miliuco you kind of remming me a Moderator under the name KGP a very kind person as well but thanks for the approach.

Look for msrtool. As far as I remember it is able to modify MSR registers. hwtools for Mavericks and better, DirectHW for macOS Big Sur, superiotool, mptable, osxpmem, iwleeprom, ectool, msrtool, ifdtool, inteltool, nvramtool, pciutils-3.7.0 and Flashrom-1.2

Both Apple and Intel co-developed Thunderbolt - the limitation is in the firmware and I see there is a patch to allow hot plugging which brings hotplugging to . I tried the steps outlined here. The Thunderbolt device shows up in the PCI devices area of the system Report, but the adapter doesn't show in the network sections. I am using an adapter Thunderbolt3/4 adapter with an Ethernet adapter at the other. IT should show up in the networking area as a Thunderbolt -Ethernet Bridge. Nothing shows. I can confirm that his shows up under Windows 11 as Ethernet 4. No issues what so ever. - Other things -- I have remapped my USB ports as there was an issue with the front ports no running at full speed. I now have all ports working at their designated speeds. I used a tool called USB map master which runs a python script to generate a USB map kext. Worked beautifully ! Ethernet issues are now solved as well using IOPCIFamily.kext USBMap-master.zip IOPCIFamily.kext.zip

Anyone using F12l BIOS with Aorus Pro with a Thunderbolt card (where they added ReBAR support, for Pro WiFi the version might differ)? While macOS appears to run fine, it creates a lot of problems in Windows, including Thunderbolt controller not working (code 48 in device manager), eGPU causing BSOD, and Thunderbolt HDD enclousure causing extreme slowdowns. Anyone got any ideas?

FWIW, I did my installation completely via USB installer (Monterey, using OpenCore-prepared with Legacy Boot tools)...I installed onto a SATA SSD on a PCIe adapter, so it was pretty vanilla. My biggest issue was around reboots not working so I had to force power-off and power on whenever a reboot was required.

Have removed HDMI audio. One last problem. I am unable to remove kexts from S/L/E. SIP has been disabled.

Hello everyone For users who need to use NTFS formatted hard disks on the Mac, I would like to point out a free App called Mounty for NTFS which is also compatible with Big Sur, which allows you to read and write in NTFS. Those interested can download it on the official link. https://mounty.app/?fbclid=IwAR27Af9Ky_auhExEZiiYmsR8IhnuKbUcLheXtz_ZxHkQK8V90YT3sxekEBgà1