Hp Elitebook 8530w - help know my hardware and options please

[james341]

Hello

 

(Sorry about my English)

 

i used to be an hackintush user and than found the money to buy me a new mac.

Since than we had some problems and i had to sell my mac to have some exta money and since than i tried to find myseld some notebook that i can work with.

my dad gave me some old notebook and this is my only compuer i have and i miss my OSX.

I want to know if you can help me get there and install Sierra on this PC.

The PC is : HP EliteBook 8530w workstation 

The system info is :

CPU : Intel Core2Duo CPU T9600 2.8Ghz

RAM : 4 Gb

GPU :  Nvidia Quadro FX 770M

 

I searched the forum for a manual and found some old post for 10.7 and it's not the same for me

I have TransMac to create the bootable USB and have some  Sierra DMG file I found on this link:

 

What do you say? is it possible for me?

[james341]

Your HP 8530w is of similar specs as Dell Precision M4400 mobile workstation. I've posted some guidance for Mavericks here some time ago (the Sierra bootpack can easily be derived from the Mavericks one). For installation, you can refer to the Dell D630 installation guide posted here and follow the same process (obviously with your own bootpack).

 

You can re-use the same FakeSMC kext as posted in the M4400 thread since it's tuned to MBP5,4 C2D model and carries AGPM tuning for the nVidia 770M GPU. I can't remember if MBP5,4 SMBIOS supports Sierra but if it did not, you could opt for MBP7,1 instead.

 

Thanks for your help

 

In the section of the manual 10.12 USB installer creation - I don't have a mac any more so this method will not help me as it based on the option you already have a working mac some where - is there a way to create it on a windows 10 ?

 

Again - many thanks for your help