Lenovo Y580- i7-3610m, gtx 660m, 8gb, ...

HI>

I'm wishing to install Mac on my new Lenovo Y580. I've bought the original mountain lion system from the app store. However, I'm still not clear whether or not my system is supported fully. Please help!

My system:

Processor

3rd generation Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor( 2.30GHz 6MB) Memory 8.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MH Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX660M 2GB Network Card Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200BGN

Your help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Lenovo Y580

Hi, kindly let me know if you have any luck with your project. I just bought the same system and I would like to install Mountain Lion as well.
Thanks.

Well I can tell you at the moment that the NVIDIA 660m graphics don't work, at least on my system, which is a bummer.

Alright guys, let's get this going!

Ivy bridge works with the retail Mountain Lion.
The video card seems like it should work, as well as the Intel 4000 graphics.
I'm not sure if the WiFi will work.

I got the model with the 30GB SSD mSATA along with the 1TB 5.4k rpm HDD. It has something called "rapiddrive" or "rapidboot" where it both storage devices as one. I'm not sure how it works, but it won't let me partition any internal drive.

I used Lenovo's OneTouch Recovery to make a factory backup and I also made a Windows System Repair Disk. My plan now seems like it will be to use the Linux GParted Live CD to reformat my drives. From what I've heard, if you want to keep "rapiddrive" with windows, you'll have to use the last part of the SSD and the fitwrst part of the HDD. I'm not sure how the Mountain Lion will work with having two partitions.

Anybody else here have a Y580 or other Lenovo notebooks?
Any feedback is much appreciated!

sportsguy said:

Alright guys, let's get this going!

Ivy bridge works with the retail Mountain Lion.
The video card seems like it should work, as well as the Intel 4000 graphics.
I'm not sure if the WiFi will work.

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I would really want to know if the GTX 660M works too! Thanks! Getting this laptop soon!

For some reason the Lenovo recovery won't allow me to reinstall the OS unless I have both the mSATA SSD and the HDD in at the same time. I have tried multiple formatting with type size and number of partitions. So that kinda puts me at a halt for now...

Well the good news is that I got ML running on an external hard drive. I am using Integrated Graphics (4000) as it wouldn't boot with the nVidia card. It seems to run alright after I installed a few different kexts. Still working on them, though. I'll keep you guys updated.

sportsguy said:

Well the good news is that I got ML running on an external hard drive. I am using Integrated Graphics (4000) as it wouldn't boot with the nVidia card. It seems to run alright after I installed a few different kexts. Still working on them, though. I'll keep you guys updated.

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How is it with the Integrated 4000 graphics?

It seems fine. Acceptable at least. I am running it off of a portable hard drive so performance can't really be expected.

I can't figure out how to separate the stupid rapiddrive. The only thing I can think of would to not use the Lenovo backup and use a new/plain Windows install. I wiped the hard drives with gparted and even took out the drives separately to try to install the Lenovo Windows restore back on but it requires both the SSD and HDD

EDIT: the graphics suck...

So I figured out how to get different partitions on the SSD/HDD combo. Does anyone have advice as to how I should split up the 32GB SSD and 1TB HDD?