- Joined
- Jan 3, 2014
- Messages
- 39
- Motherboard
- MSI GS63VR 7RF
- CPU
- i7 77000HQ
- Graphics
- hd630 (3840x2160) & GTX 1060
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
I'm new to the hackintosh community. I also have a MSI GS63VR 7RF. Is the clover configuration dialed in enough at this point that you would recommend using it in a daily-use environment?
I'm currently using this machine as a laptop for my professional work as a web developer 8 hours a day. And I haven't experienced many issue's to date. You can sometimes get the odd crash mainly when shutting down & disconnecting other external screens/devices at the same time, but I have never had it lock up & bricking itself. So in my opinion it's pretty stable as for now. I am using this machine as a windows-machine after hours, so It's a double boot.
For audio, i discovered I do have an unsupported Realtek codec, but the voodooHDA does work.... sort a: the headphones output is recognized as SPDIF and doesn't have any volume support :S The internal speakers do work & I haven't tested the line in, so I can't comment on that.
I haven't swapped out the wifi/bluetooth card yet, but I am planning to, if I can get my hands on a compatible one. I do need to do some more research on this.
As I have a bluetooth headphone, I just use a simple bluetooth dongle & a pair of bt-headphones & that fixes most of my issue's. The bluetooth is working fine with this dongle & the audio issue's are out of the way
Battery-status I have yet to perfect, see this thread, as I have to patch the dtst file for this to work accurately, but I'm still working on that (if I have the time)
If you wan't to use an external display, do know that the dp & hdmi port are not working as of now, they are hooked directly onto the nvidia card. I did read today that the pascal (beta-)drivers were released, but I have yet to test them. I am currently using a usb-c to hdmi dongle, which is working, but it has its quirks. For example, I can only get it to connect properly when my headphones are connected & I'm outputting audio & even then it doesn't work all the time. So hopefully the pascal driver will circumvent this issue. The usb-c dongle's usb-port doesn't work at all, when using it in this configuration.
If you need any help setting the installer up or want some clover-files/settings, do request, I can post them if you like. I do want to note that I am not running sierra at the moment, I'm running el capitan as there were some issue's with sierra at the time of my install & haven't bothered updating yet, as there are no real features that I need to have for my work.