RayGore 0 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 hi there im somewhat new to the H-N-toch world. everything i have is apple, i got this lenovo M53 from a lot buy and im looking to make it run as a mac mini. i was in this seen years ago when it was getting started but dropped out after my first good hack. once i found out how mush i liked osx i went out and bought a macbook pro. well years later i really dont feel like buying a mac mini for the shop. so as much as i know on this unit its a thinkcenter M53, 4GB DDR3, 512GB SSD. intel P J2900 4 core @ 2.41 GHz i ordered a 8GB and a 16GB stick of ram for it i dont know if it can run either one but im going to try. iv been trying to install catalina with clover but im not having any luck. iv tried 4 different .plist files from other lenovo's. so if theres anyone out there who is smarter then me please help... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hervé 2,378 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Pentium J 2900 is Bay Trail and that's not supported. You'd need a special kernel (which I don't think you'll find for Catalina) and there's no support whatsoever for Bray Trail integrated Intel HD graphics. It's a small low-end Nettop computer built on a SoC architecture and it's not upgradable at all. As such, it's not suitable at all for Hackintosh purposes. You won't be able to run OS X/macOs on it, it just does not meet the minimum requirements. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RayGore 0 Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 Hervé thanks for the insite, i know there are some of these lenovo tinys that can do it, the M93 is one i found on youtube. so i guess ill be looking for one of them unless i can find one hell of a deal on a mac mini. thanks for your time and knowledge. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hervé 2,378 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 M93 are fitted with mainstream Intel Haswell i5 or i7 CPUs + Intel HD4600 graphics, that's why. Your M53 is just one of those very low-end Nettop computer, the M93 model being a lot more beefy and with specs closer to a real Desktop computer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AllenD.Watts 0 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 (edited) Quote Hervé thanks for the insite, i know there are some of these lenovo tinys that can do it, the M93 is one i found on youtube. so i guess ill be looking for one of them unless i can find one hell of a deal on a mac mini. thanks for your time and knowledge. I would still stop at the choice in Mac mini. Edited February 9 by AllenD.Watts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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