Hey all, here's an interesting one. I purchased a HP 8300 Elite
Ultra Slim Desktop computer yesterday on the cheap with the following specs:
HP Elite 8300 Ultra-slim
i7-3770S 3.10Ghz
8GB RAM
750GB HD
AMD Radeon 7600A
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
I previously built a Hackintosh out of on HP Elite 8300 Small Form Factor tower which had PCI slots, etc. and worked like a charm as a mackintosh. But this Ultra Slim model is
tiny, and because it was so cheap off CraigsList, I went over and bought it, and because I'm stupid, I didn't realize that according to the guide it wouldn't work. Uh oh.
It has no PCI slots, and the onboard graphics is AMD Radeon 7600A which according to everything I read is not supported. Darn.
But because it already had Windows loaded in, I loaded Windows and checked the graphics properties, and it listed
both the AMD Radeon 7600A
and Intel HD Graphics 4000. (So maybe the intel graphics are on the i7, and an additional chip AMD Radeon 7600A is on the motherboard?)
Well, I wasn't expecting this hackintosh to work, but I followed the guide steps and just acted like it only had the onboard Intel HD 4000 Graphics...and it worked! Wow.
Loaded in Sierra and in macOS Sierra, the Mac just shows only the Intel HD Graphics 4000 and ignores the AMD graphics. Have it connected via one of the built-in DisplayPorts and it's working perfectly. Total surprise!
This thing is really really small, (and the funny thing is that the power brick is roughly the size of the entire machine) but I'm just shocked it worked, because the guide shows that it should only work for Newegg models.
Just wanted to pass this info along as a big thanks first, and also possibly an update to the guide is needed? The guide shows the name of this machine as "(Ultra Small Form Factor)" but it's actually officially called the "Ultra Slim" model, and even with the AMD Radeon 7600A graphics, it worked by just injecting Intel graphics at the start like it only had native onboard intel graphics.
Anyway, thanks again for this wonderful guide. I couldn't have done it without it of course. Best guide ever.