I got a Lenovo X1 Tablet Gen 3 Kaby Lake with i7-8650u and I’m going to install macOS Monterey 12.4 and upgraded to the latest one 12.6.3. This tablet has detachable keyboard which only works with keyboard and red track mouse and NOT the trackpad on macOS (either Big Sur or Monterey) This tablet has …
Most of audio devices are in the AppleALC.kext, but some of the Realtek ALC295 doesn’t have the mic support. We have the speakers sound but not the microphone input. This post is to try to get the microphone to work with SST (Smart Sound Technology). With AppleALC.kext we tried all the layout-id but none has …
My Lenovo X1 Tablet Gen 3 Kaby Lake i7-8650u doesn’t have native NVRAM. I use Clover 5151 to boot to Monterey OS 12.6.3. When the NVRAM is not there, it doesn’t remember the last boot volume. So every time to install new software it doesn’t default to boot volume and it’s a pain to sit …
I had a spare 1TB 2.5″ hard drive from an old laptop for data, I needed a light USB 3.0 case to use as a portable data drive. I found this Orico HDD 3.0 hard drive case with tooless design and I tried it. It came out quite nice and pretty fast. Easy to install …
It’s holiday season, we need to turn the lights on/off. The light sensor plug doesn’t seem to work accurately and we did waste a lot of energy so we bought some inexpensive Tuya Smart Plugs from Aliexpress. I ordered the 16A so it’s strong enough for all my LED lights and anything hooked up to it. …
