[Guide] Hackintosh on Dell OptiPlex 380 (Mini Tower)

[trs96]

Would it be compatible with this hardware?

All I see in your hardware profile is a laptop. And something about a Core 2 Duo. Why not make a separate entry for your Dell Desktop in your Signature so that readers know exactly what hardware you have ?

Trying Mojave on an ancient Core 2 Duo socket 775 system isn't a great idea. The 5450 is also unsupported so be happy if you have HS working well. Mojave would be a big challenge and take a lot more work.

 

[Ritchie333]

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.

 

[pgreezy]

High sierra is definetly the best macos for the dell optiplex 380 because of how old the 775 motherboard is, it works up to macos catalina but you will need a metal compatiable gpu and teletrap kext for core 2 duo cpu, also you will need the sata kext i provided in previous post to see your hard drive in the installer, only macos big sur wont work because it requires that you have achi sata firmware to work