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[Guide] El Capitan on the Intel Broadwell NUC

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Finally, be aware that the i7 is rated at 28W vs. the i5 at 15W. It means the fan on the i7 is louder when it does spin up (which, granted, is fairly rare). I guess it depends on whether you put more value on a quieter machine or more CPU horsepower (the GPU seems fairly equivalent, but there's a noticeable difference in CPU Geekbench scores).


Just wondering the average temperature of NUC i7 with EL, does the fan spin up in normal usage or play a HD movie?
 
Here's a list of products reported to be supported by the Realtek drivers. Surely you can find another low-profile one on that list. Be aware that if you want it internal to your case, you still need an adapter cable because the internal thing is a motherboard header, not a full USB port. If you don't mind it being external, you can just plug it in like normal.

Code:
"ASUS_USB-AC56"
"ASUS_USB-N10"
"ASUS_USB-N10E"
"ASUS_USB-N13"
"AboCom_8178"
"AboCom_8189"
"Abocom_0811"
"Abocom_88EU"
"Abocom_AC"
"Amigo"
"AzureWave"
"Belkin_1004"
"Belkin_1102"
"Belkin_2102"
"Belkin_2103"
"Belkin_F9L1106_v2"
"Belkin_F9L1106v2"
"Buffallo_25D"
"Buffallo_433DM"
"Compare-8010"
"Compare-8011"
"Corega"
"D-Link_DWA-131"
"D-Link_DWA-131E"
"DLINK_DWA123"
"DLINK_DWA125"
"DLINK_GO_USB_N150"
"DLink-DWA121"
"DLink-DWA123"
"DLink-DWA131B1"
"DLink-DWA132"
"DLink-DWA133"
"DLink-DWA135"
"Dlink_DWA-171"
"Dlink_DWA-172"
"Dlink_DWA-180"
"Dlink_DWA-182"
"Dlink_DWA-182_B1"
"Dlink_DWA-183"
"ELECOM WDC-150SU2M"
"ELECOM WDC-300SU2S"
"ELECOM_WDC-433DU2"
"Edimax_7811"
"Edimax_7822"
"Edimax_AC600"
"Edimax_EW-7811UAC"
"Edimax_EW-7822UAC"
"Edimax_GLP"
"EnGenius_AC"
"Feixun_90"
"Feixun_91"
"HP"
"Hawking_8811AU"
"Hawking_8812AU"
"Hawking_HW7ACU"
"Hawking_HWDN3"
"Hawking_HWUN4"
"Hercules_HWUm300"
"Hercules_HWUp150"
"IO_DATA"
"IO_DATA_AC433"
"IO_DATA_AC433UM"
"IO_DATA_WN-AC867U"
"Linksys_WUSB6300"
"Logitec"
"Logitec_LAN-W866ACU3"
"Loopcomm_ACA1"
"Netgear_A6100"
"Netgear_N300MA"
"Netgear_WNA1000M"
"Netgear_WNA3100M"
"NetweeN_91"
"PCI_BT-Micro3H2X"
"PCI_GW-300S"
"PCI_GW_USEco300"
"PCI_GW_USLight"
"PCI_GW_USNano2"
"PCI_GW_USValue_EZ"
"PCI_SW_WF02-AD15"
"Planex_GW-450S"
"Planex_GW-900D"
"RTL8188CTV"
"RTL8188CTV_0A8A"
"RTL8188CTV_8011"
"RTL8188CU"
"RTL8188CUS_1E1E"
"RTL8188CUS_2E2E"
"RTL8188CUS_5088"
"RTL8188CUS_Combo"
"RTL8188CUS_Combo_AFF8"
"RTL8188CUS_Combo_AFFB"
"RTL8188CUS_Combo_AFFC"
"RTL8188CUS_Solo"
"RTL8188CUS_VL"
"RTL8188CUS_solo_AFF7"
"RTL8188CUS_solo_AFF9"
"RTL8188CUS_solo_AFFA"
"RTL8188EU"
"RTL8188EU_ETV"
"RTL8188EU_VAU"
"RTL8188RU"
"RTL8188RU_Netcore"
"RTL8192CU"
"RTL8192CU_8177"
"RTL8192CU_8178"
"RTL8192EU"
"RTL8192EU-2"
"RTL8811AU"
"RTL8812AU"
"RTL8812AU-VL"
"RTL8812AU-VN"
"RTL8812AU-VS"
"Sitecom WLA-1100"
"Sitecom WLA-2100"
"Sitecom_WL365"
"Sitecom_WLA-2104"
"Sitecom_WLA1001v1"
"Sitecom_WLA2102"
"Sitecom_WLA4001"
"Sitecom_WLA7100"
"TEW_804UB"
"TEW_805UB"
"TPLink_8812"
"TP_Link"
"TrendNet_804B"
"TrendNet_805B"
"Trendnet_624D"
"Trendnet_648B"
"Western_AC"
"ZyXEL"
"ZyXEL_AC"



There's no one size fits all. You can get a SM951 PCIe x4 AHCI m.2 SSD and it would be incredibly fast, or an 850 EVO SATA m.2 SSD and it would be fast and cheap, or a 2.5" hard drive and it would by slow and even cheaper. You can get 128MB or 1 TB (or 2 TB+ for the mechanical drive). You can get 8GB or 16GB of RAM, at base speed or higher frequency or lower CAS Latency.

Finally, be aware that the i7 is rated at 28W vs. the i5 at 15W. It means the fan on the i7 is louder when it does spin up (which, granted, is fairly rare). I guess it depends on whether you put more value on a quieter machine or more CPU horsepower (the GPU seems fairly equivalent, but there's a noticeable difference in CPU Geekbench scores).

Thank you for that! I don't mind so much. At the moment I have a Late 2008 Unibody Macbook with 8gb of ram and an ssd hard drive. I've upgraded it throughout its life but now it's just too slow for my needs. I want to make one out of a Nuc instead of buying a Mac Mini.

I was thinking that the Nuc i7 with 16gb of ram would be perfect for a few years. I don't game on it or do any rendering. Just a lot of web browsing, watching videos, research etc.
 
So do you think a Skylake Nuc would run OSX El Capitan?

It probably would not run well on day one. At a minimum, I think you'd get the same graphical artifacts we see on other Skylake machine (colored menus and menu bars, Safari/Preview/App Store unusable). We all hope that will clear up with time... It did for Broadwell, though it took a few months at least. It wouldn't surprise me if the built-in Ethernet is the same i219 seen on other 170 boards, and that doesn't work yet either, so you'd need a working USB network device in the short term.

Bottom line, it would be a bit of a gamble, but every prior NUC has eventually worked fine with OS X. Your upside with a Skylake NUC is much better graphics performance (the i5 comes with a 64 MB eDRAM cache which was shown to be a huge boost on Broadwell graphics but didn't come on the NUCs before); the down side is they haven't released an i7 model, and the time needed before it "works great" is unknown.
 
Hi everyone, i'm following the guide to install el capitan on my 5i5MYHE (No bluetooth / wifi card at the moment) and i can get to the install screen, i follow all instructions, but when i reboot (without USB) the apple logo and the progress bar appear but it doesn't boot at all. If i boot with the usb and choose the hfs option i can boot it, but not without the USB. (the boot options appears without usb, but doesn´t work)

I have no SSDT.aml for i5-5300U, i've tried to generate it but it fails - Unknown processor - (can someone send me one for this cpu, please?)

I think the problem is something about the EFI, but i've followed all the instructions and it seems to fail every time, i tried to enter safe mode, verbose mode, but it doesnt work.

Do i have to enter the smbios settings even if i don't want to use icloud / imessage??

  1. Still in Clover Configurator, go to SMBIOS on the left
  2. Click the "magic wand" icon
  3. Select the MacBook Air image (currently third from left)
  4. Select MacBook Air 6,2
  5. Click shake next to Week of Manufacture a few times and shake next to Unit Number a few times
  6. Hit OK to copy the values into your config.plist
  7. Go to the Serial Number field and replace the first four characters with C02P and the last four with G940. For instance, if it generates CK221234F5V8 then turn that into C02P1234G940
  8. Copy the resulting value in the Serial Number field
  9. Go to the Rt Variables screen on the left
  10. Paste your serial number into the MLB field, and then add 5 random characters or digits to the end, to make 17 characters total.
  11. File/Save config.plist and Quit Clover Configurator.
  12. Copy your modified config.plist to EFI/EFI/CLOVER/, overwriting the default one that’s in there.



Thanks in advance and excuse my english, i'm from Spain!
 
Hi guys,

I would like to get some advice. I can't decide which one to get either the 5i5MYHE or NUC5i5RYH.

I know one has the HD 5500 and the other has Iris 6000. Is there much difference between both GPUs?

Would it make a difference in OSX or with games?

Thanks
 
I can't decide which one to get either the 5i5MYHE or NUC5i5RYH.

I know one has the HD 5500 and the other has Iris 6000. Is there much difference between both GPUs?

Would it make a difference in OSX or with games?

On our latest round of benchmarking with Cinebench, the HD5500 got 11 FPS and the HD 6000 got 27 FPS. So yes, there's a difference, though probably more noticeable for games than general OS X usage.

The other relevant differences are the WiFi (soldered incompatible card vs. empty m.2 slot) and m.2 disk bandwidth (6 Gbps SATA/PCIe x4 vs 3 Gbps SATA/PCIe x2).
 
Well, if you get the MYHE then it has all three -- an m.2 WiFi slot, an m.2 SSD slot, and a 2.5" SATA slot. But then you get the slower graphics and disk.

If you get the RYH then you'd want to get a WiFi USB adapter that's compatible with OS X.
 
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