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I haven't done any Hackintosh building for a while, it was just an exercise during Covid lockdown to see if I could put macOS on whatever hardware I had to hand around the house. I was fortunate enough to get handed a M1 Mac Mini and M1 Pro 14" MacBook from work which were retired after a...

That’s wishful thinking! More likely is Apple deciding to drop AMD support and focus solely on Apple Silicon GPUs.

Yeah, I like Dell Optiplexes, they're built like tanks and last forever. The main Hackintosh project I've been working on is taking an old Optiplex I was going to throw in the trash, which is now doing a very good impression of a 2010 Mac mini. And there's a Optiplex 9020 sitting here on my...

I finally retired my trusty Mac Pro 3,1 last year (it's had a good innings) and swapped it for a Quad Core I7 2012 Mac Mini. It does everything I need it to do, which is basically general casual computing and music production. I'm aware the GPU is not particularly good, but I can (and have)...

You can absolutely upgrade a 2011 Mac Mini to macOS Monterey using the OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Be aware that the stock GPU in a 2011 is not Metal-compliant so you will need to do a fair bit of root patching to get proper GPU acceleration.

What would I like to see? Macs with upgradable RAM and storage. Actually, I can buy the argument about RAM not upgradable, because you can't do that in a Raspberry Pi. However, the M1 Mac Mini I use at work has run out of storage and it's driving me up the wall that I can't just bung a bigger...

Same here - my boss bought the 3,1 brand new in 2008 for £2,500 (or thereabouts) and I got it about six years later. I'm not using it as my daily driver currently, but it only got retired a few weeks ago after the temperature of the RAM riser started reaching 90C, causing the fans to run all the...

I'm amazed Kepler support has lasted this long, since the well-publicised spat between Apple and NVidia is over three years' ago now. Dropping Ivy Bridge support (as used by the Mac Mini 2012, still IMHO the best Mac Mini until at least the M1) is significant, as that's metal compatible.

Couple of thoughts off the top of my head: The Apple Silicon iMac has got to be the prime contender, given the machine hasn't been updated in a few years. I've seen a few videos of people take a busted iMac, gut it, add a controller / inverter board and a Mac Mini logic board as a replacement...

The Dell Optiplex 380 will not work with anything beyond High Sierra because it does have the proper AHCI firmware for later kernels to be able to see a root filesystem. Just forget it.

That EFI has only been tested on my Optiplex 380 with the Quadro (see my profile), I don't have anything else.

Sure, here you go. Just remember to use your own serial number, please. Also, this doesn't have the SATA patch described upthread.

Just to follow up on another point, I'm pretty sure OpenCore won't work on an Optiplex 380 SATA drive, full stop. As it says here, "The ICH7 (Base) and ICH7-U (Ultra-mobile) chip do not support AHCI". Seems to work up to Mojave in Clover, but won't boot Catalina, presumably because the legacy...

Both Mojave and Catalina crash and reboot about two seconds after Quartz start up. It only boots up properly with all graphics acceleration turned off.

I got round to doing this today, and discovered that the DEBUG versions of Lilu 1.4.9 + AppleALC 1.5.4 work, but the RELEASE ones don't! I've attached a boot log with full Lilu debug in case that's of any use.

NVIDIA Quadro 410: Chipset Model: NVIDIA Quadro 410 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe Slot: Slot-1 PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 511 MB Vendor: AMD (0x1002) Device ID: 0x68e0 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision: VBIOS 80.07.ae.00.02 Metal...

This is an extract from the system report in High Sierra and a dump of PCIe devices in Hackintool:

I did some digging today and I was surprised to see what I thought was a Quadro 410 (Kepler based and hence supported because of 2013 iMacs) is actually being reported as an AMD Radeon 5400 (though the card name is coming through as "NVidia Quadro Pro 410"), which AIUI won't work with anything...

I rather embarrassingly did this on my Mac Pro this evening by not paying attention and booting off the wrong USB stick, both of which said “EFI Boot” and were otherwise identical. This screwed the Mac up royally and killed the display stone dead, even after recycling the power. I managed to...

I've managed to boot into the Big Sur installer on both my Optiplex 380 via OpenCore (see this thread) and on my Mac Pro 3,1 - however in both cases the keyboard and mouse don't respond and I can't progress any further than the language selection screen. On further inspection, there's no signal...