Laptop Compatibility

[Mav83]

acer aspire V3-575 series , model no. N15Q6 .. already read the post #1, however, more were the doubts than the answers found.. any pointers? (btw, the OS i'm aiming for is either Big Sur or newer)

 

[Feartech]

acer aspire V3-575 series , model no. N15Q6 .. already read the post #1, however, more were the doubts than the answers found.. any pointers? (btw, the OS i'm aiming for is either Big Sur or newer)

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[KYBOSH]

Dell XPS 15 - 9550 fully working with Monterey.
Been using (amd loving) it without issue for quite a while
Want to upgrade but havent seen anything about higher OS versions here on the forums (either good or bad).

Can anywone confirm or deny this notebook's compatibility with macOS 13 (Ventura) or macOS 14 (Sonoma) ??

Thanks in advance

 

[Feartech]

Dell XPS 15 - 9550 fully working with Monterey.
Been using (amd loving) it without issue for quite a while
Want to upgrade but havent seen anything about higher OS versions here on the forums (either good or bad).

Can anywone confirm or deny this notebook's compatibility with macOS 13 (Ventura) or macOS 14 (Sonoma) ??

Thanks in advance

Skylake can be spoofed as a Kabylake which can run Ventura

 

[KYBOSH]

Skylake can be spoofed as a Kabylake which can run Ventura

Thank you VERY much for this reply Feartech. You've pointed me in the right direction. Which Kaby Lake SMBIOS would you advise i iuse for my system?

 

[Feartech]

Thank you VERY much for this reply Feartech. You've pointed me in the right direction. Which Kaby Lake SMBIOS would you advise i iuse for my system?

I use MacBookPro14,1

AAPL,ig-platform-id -> 00001659
device-id -> 16590000

if using a usb kext, edit the info.plist to use the same smbios in there as well

use latest kexts, lilu, whatevergreen

 

[danilovitch]

Hi, I have a question. I have a Kaby Lake cpu on my HP 830 laptop and it has run great on Ventura with smbios 14.1. It can't be updated to Sonoma of course. Just as an experiment I logged out of Apple and just brutally changed the identity to smbios 15.4. Now the Sonoma installer pops up. No intention to update yet, just interested in what you think. Geekbench 6 jumped up some hundred points and all seems well. Shall I run OCLP when version 1 comes out tomorrow or what? Maybe it not possible to register this setup with Apple?

Edit: sleep does not work...I was to hasty there, sleep works alright, just had some network thing going on.

 

[Feartech]

Hi, I have a question. I have a Kaby Lake cpu on my HP 830 laptop and it has run great on Ventura with smbios 14.1. It can't be updated to Sonoma of course. Just as an experiment I logged out of Apple and just brutally changed the identity to smbios 15.4. Now the Sonoma installer pops up. No intention to update yet, just interested in what you think. Geekbench 6 jumped up some hundred points and all seems well. Shall I run OCLP when version 1 comes out tomorrow or what? Maybe it not possible to register this setup with Apple?

what wifi card do you have.. out of interest

 

[danilovitch]

what wifi card do you have.. out of interest

Hi, at the moment I use a Broadcom 4352 (I used brmc4360 also, but linux does not like that one) for this laptop, but original was Intel 8265NGW. I need to change back to that if I upgrade to Sonoma I suppose, or possible try the oclp patch. Maybe it will work. 4352 had much better reception than the Intel and I also like the possibility of airdrop.

 

[Feartech]

Hi, at the moment I use a Broadcom 4352 (I used brmc4360 also, but linux does not like that one) for this laptop, but original was Intel 8265NGW. I need to change back to that if I upgrade to Sonoma I suppose, or possible try the oclp patch. Maybe it will work. 4352 had much better reception than the Intel and I also like the possibility of airdrop.

yes, broadcom has been dropped, but intel can work