{"id":7755,"date":"2020-06-29T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:38:22","slug":"create-your-first-laptop-hackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/create-your-first-laptop-hackintosh.html","title":{"rendered":"Create Your First Laptop Hackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Update 5\/3\/2021 &#8211; Installed Big Sur 11.3 and everything works perfectly with macBook Pro 13,2.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"Big Sur 11.3 macbookpro 13,2 Clover kexts folder\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_sur_mbp132_clover_kexts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_sur_mbp132_clover_kexts-200x112.png\" alt=\"clover 5130 macbookpro 13,2 kexts\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Clover 5130 config <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/configpro132_bs_sample.plist_.zip\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">configpro132_bs_sample.plist<\/button><\/a>\u00a0, OpenCore 0.6.6 config <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/configp132_bs_sample.plist_.zip\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">configp132_bs_sample.plist<\/button><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/SSDT-UIAC-132.aml_.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">SSDT-UIAC-132.aml<\/button><\/a> \u00a0if you have the exact same model.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"Big Sur 11.3 on macbookpro 13,2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_sur_pro132.png\">,\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_sur_pro132-200x112.png\" alt=\"Big Sur 11.3 macBook Pro 13,2\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Create your first Laptop Hackintosh means installing macOS Catalina 15.5 on your Windows Laptop. It&#8217;s not hard but not easy, the best thing is to understand what needs to be done to get it working just like a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. Thanks to the hackintosh developer communities, hackintosh is much easier now than ever before. The latest macOS is Catalina. We&#8217;re going to install macOS Catalina on our Windows Laptops. This tutorial is based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/configdw1820anosn.plist_.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">HP EliteBook 820 G3 &#8211; Skylake &#8211; HD520 &#8211; i7-6600u<\/button><\/a> the<a class=\"preview\" title=\"graphics hd520 id in hex\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_hd520.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\"> graphics id = 19168086<\/button><\/a>, <a class=\"preview\" title=\"Intel Ethernet id in hex\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_ethernet_intel_156f.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Intel Ethernet 156f<\/button><\/a>, <a class=\"preview\" title=\"Conexant ISST audio id in hex\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_sound_isst_14f150f4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">Audio codecs ISST<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I tried to make this as simple and easiest way to install macOSX onto Windows based Laptop as possible. There are many ways to do it out there, but I believe it&#8217;s better to learn and understand the OS rather than blindly cut and paste codes to make it work. If you have questions after reading and watching the videos, I&#8217;ll answer but I won&#8217;t do anything else. If you used some other ways, then ask the people who know their ways, please don&#8217;t mix and match them with mine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/configpro132_clover_sample.plist_.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">My clover_config_sample<\/button><\/a> for your references.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"Rfsrlf9WyAA\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>All newer Windows laptops have the Windows serial# embedded in the bios, so we can re-install Windows OS without needing to activate them, it&#8217;s automatically.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All EFI folders are small, 200Mb-300Mb which should be 500Mb or bigger, so the best is to re-format and re-install Windows 10, make sure to back up all important data first. All the drivers should be on the manufacturers website. We can download all the drivers to a USB flash drive before re-install Windows 10, make sure to set EFI folder to be at least 500Mb. Make sure system is GPT, follow the instructions.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>After installed Windows 10, create a partition for macOS Catalina, it can be in NTFS because we will erase to APFS when it&#8217;s time to install.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Choose a perfect SMBIOS for the hackintosh based on our laptop configuration, this is important because macOS Catalina will install hardware features on their particular models. Our sample configs with SMBIOS proven working well with our laptops.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Create a 16GB USB flash drive boot loader and Catalina 15.5 installer.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Install macOS Catalina 15.5 on an external USB hard drive and make sure it works as desired before installing to the internal hard drive partition.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The goal to make a perfect MacBookAir or MacBookPro is to have these working: Graphics, Network (Ethernet, Wifi and Bluetooth), Keyboard and Trackpads, All USB ports, Sounds, HDMI, Sleep\/Wake, Brightness, Audio keys.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"wkX9bfB0lP0\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Create your first hackintosh on laptop part 1<\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"R8yWrMD1_M4\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Create your first hackintosh on laptop part 2<\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"XJWzoiBynXs\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">Create your first hackintosh on laptop part 3<\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"2YlCk7Es1fs\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">How To Install macOS to USB drive from beginning to end patch<\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"0ZuR91nIzTs\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">To Patch Battery for this particular EliteBook 820 G3 &#8211; use Elite X2 from Rehabman patch<\/button><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"3aN1yuJEhYw\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-patch-dsdt-and-ssdts-for-perfect-macbook-pro-on-hackintosh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">Patch DSDT and SSDTs For Perfect Sleep\/Wake MacBook<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/acpi-power-management-for-hackintosh-using-ssdtprgen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">Create ACPI Power Management SSDT with SSDTPRGEN.sh.<\/button><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-add-usb-wifi-to-macos-catalina-15-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">How To Install External USB Wifi Dongle for Catalina<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/dw1820a-on-hp-elitebook-820-g3-catalina-15-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">Install DW1820A instead of DW1560<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-use-applealc-for-hackintosh-audio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">How To Patch Audio With AppleALC.kext<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-fix-hp-post-rtc-bios-error-after-booting-with-opencore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-red w3-round-xlarge\">How To Fix HP Laptop Post Error RTC bios Screen After Using OpenCore Boot Loader<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-get-intel-wifi-bluetooth-modules-to-work-with-hackintosh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">How To Get Intel WiFi\/Bluetooth Module To Work With Hackintosh<\/button><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 5\/3\/2021 &#8211; Installed Big Sur 11.3 and everything works perfectly with macBook Pro 13,2. Clover 5130 config \u00a0, OpenCore 0.6.6 config , \u00a0if you have the exact same model. ,\u00a0 Create your first Laptop Hackintosh means installing macOS Catalina 15.5 on your Windows Laptop. It&#8217;s not hard but not easy, the best thing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/create-your-first-laptop-hackintosh.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1333,6,1446,541],"tags":[1434,1432,1433,406,1430,1394,1493,79,1435,1424,1431,1398,1399,1369,1436],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catalina","category-hackintosh","category-macos-big-sur","category-mac-wanna-be","tag-0x19168086","tag-14f150f4","tag-156f","tag-clover-boot-loader","tag-conexant-audio","tag-dw1820a","tag-dw1860","tag-hackintosh","tag-hd520","tag-hp-elitebook-820-g3","tag-isst","tag-laptop","tag-macbook","tag-opencore-boot-loader","tag-skylake"],"views":15908,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}