ProBook 470 G0 Enable Radeon 8750M

Ephoras · May 7, 2014

Hi,
this seems to be my first post here, reading was all i needed by now

Not sure if this should be here or in the Graphics threat, please redirect me if i m wrong.

I installed Mavericks via the sticky posts and it works quite well. A new, compatible wifi card is ordered, i hope it will be here soon.

After i installed everything i headed to the BIOS to reanable switchable graphics in hope to use my Radeon 8750m. Well, nothing happened....Probook runs just fine, but no sign of the graphics card

Is there any workaround/ trick how to enable the Radeon graphics card? I really need it's openCL technology for premiere / rest of the adobe suit....

I hope you can help me, if you need any further information just tell me (best would be a tutorial on how to get that exact information since i m quite new to hackintosh/mac)

greetings

shak3800 · May 7, 2014

Ephoras said:
Hi,
this seems to be my first post here, reading was all i needed by now
Not sure if this should be here or in the Graphics threat, please redirect me if i m wrong.

I installed Mavericks via the sticky posts and it works quite well. A new, compatible wifi card is ordered, i hope it will be here soon.

After i installed everything i headed to the BIOS to reanable switchable graphics in hope to use my Radeon 8750m. Well, nothing happened....Probook runs just fine, but no sign of the graphics card

Is there any workaround/ trick how to enable the Radeon graphics card? I really need it's openCL technology for premiere / rest of the adobe suit....

I hope you can help me, if you need any further information just tell me (best would be a tutorial on how to get that exact information since i m quite new to hackintosh/mac)

greetings

That card is not supported i'm afraid in mac/hackintosh . You can only use the Intel GPU . If you want to use it just dual boot with windows anytime you need to use opengl

RehabMan · May 7, 2014

Ephoras said:
Hi,
this seems to be my first post here, reading was all i needed by now
Not sure if this should be here or in the Graphics threat, please redirect me if i m wrong.

I installed Mavericks via the sticky posts and it works quite well. A new, compatible wifi card is ordered, i hope it will be here soon.

After i installed everything i headed to the BIOS to reanable switchable graphics in hope to use my Radeon 8750m. Well, nothing happened....Probook runs just fine, but no sign of the graphics card

Is there any workaround/ trick how to enable the Radeon graphics card? I really need it's openCL technology for premiere / rest of the adobe suit....

I hope you can help me, if you need any further information just tell me (best would be a tutorial on how to get that exact information since i m quite new to hackintosh/mac)

greetings

Radeon (or Nvidia) in a switched configuration is not supported. Real Macs use a different switching technology than do PCs.

Ephoras · May 7, 2014

hmmm sad...
did not plan to build a hackintosh when i bought my pc/ laptop, so now i have a probook that runs mavericks out of the box but wont be able to render via hardware and a pc with a MB that only recognizes 2 USB 2.0 ports and none of the 6 USB 3.0 ports

just so that i have asked:
The radeon card will never be supported? No way to write a custom kernel or something?

thanks for the fast answers

RehabMan · May 7, 2014

Ephoras said:
hmmm sad...
did not plan to build a hackintosh when i bought my pc/ laptop, so now i have a probook that runs mavericks out of the box but wont be able to render via hardware and a pc with a MB that only recognizes 2 USB 2.0 ports and none of the 6 USB 3.0 ports

HD4000 is quite adequate for most tasks. It is "rendering via hardware" -- it is just that the hardware is provided by Intel (on the CPU) instead of from AMD.

just so that i have asked:
The radeon card will never be supported? No way to write a custom kernel or something?

My ability to predict the future is diminished today due to a friend that has borrowed my crystal ball

Ephoras · May 7, 2014

RehabMan said:
HD4000 is quite adequate for most tasks. It is "rendering via hardware" -- it is just that the hardware is provided by Intel (on the CPU) instead of from AMD.

Yeah i see i did not phrase that right...
The Radeon GPU can render Video projects from Premiere via openCL, which is a huge boost in performance compared to rendering everything on the CPU. The chances that i need my laptop to cut videos is quite small since i have a Desktop build for that task.

I will wait for the wifi card to arrive. Then i will decide if i like Mac and will use it or reinstall Win8 (which i like a lot)

rob1980 · May 7, 2014

Why not have both OS X and windows 8 like many of us do?

I dislike windows, and would rather use linux, although windows 8.1 is improving,, I use it purely for some of my work software which is not compatible with Mac OS, the rest of the time, its hackintosh for me, due to the fact I do lots with audio, it just makes sense in my case.

Ephoras · May 7, 2014

rob1980 said:
Why not have both OS X and windows 8 like many of us do?

I did that with linux many times.
Turnes out i just waste disk space, since i m to boored to boot to the alternate OS and just keep using Windows

I actually really like Windows, but i don't care much about the OS i use.
I need the Adobe Suite to run, because i earn my cash with it.
I need Office 365 to run, because everything else sucks compared to it. Thats just my impression as a student hearing everybody else ranting about Openoffice or iWorks.
Everything else? I don't care, most of my stuff is in the cloud...

Would love to use Linux or OSX, but for me bual-booting never worked

Maybe someday someone will find a way to use my graphics card, or gives me a Mac Pro (that thrash can is the most beautiful piece of hardware i have ever seen)

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