Hackintosh: macOS on Dell Optiplex

[@michaelsmith7739]

"We also need to fix an IRQ conflict." Now there's a phrase I haven't heard in a long, long time... Nice guide! Will try to set some time aside in the new year to have another go at a Hackintosh.

[@mikepxg6406]

Great job. I have made Hackintosh's from a Mac but never from a windows machine.

[@martinjjnoagenda5536]

Nice guide. Well done. I know how much work that must have been. I've done this a while ago with Ventura on an Dell Optiplex Micro 3050, only in a way more chaotic manner. After a lot of trial and error it worked, except for the audio. I very well may have messed up things. With ethernet not really required, but you can also pretty easily get WiFi working. That's not using the original Mac Wifi, but some simulated version.

[@jensdbe]

I plan to repeat the process on a more recent Intel NUC with wifi and Bluetooth, good to hear that doesn't cause too much trouble. For your machine I also think you need alcid=11 in the boot-args as it has the same audio chip as the 5070. Maybe worth looking into. Not sure if you need to patch any IRQ conflicts but as you could see it's not too difficult.

[@Playmaker7-go2em]

When trying to install I get “configuration requires vault but no vault provided” message any idea how to fix? Also using the same pc as you did

[@egbront1506]

Does sleep work? This was always the trickiest thing to get working when I was hackintoshing and always required deep drilling in the DSDT files. Would be great to see if the bios tools could do all the work automatically now.

[@jensdbe]

I haven't seen any issues with sleep as far as I tested. I know this was indeed always tricky but looks like it just works without further customization on this machine/versions.

[@AbdulSamadSami85]

Well why do you have to go through diskpart if you have disk management in windows 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@jensdbe]

@@AbdulSamadSami85 there is no proper clean option in disk management. I noticed that deleting all partitions in Disk Management is sometimes not enough

[@nohavename6983]

Disk management are shit.

[@johncollins5552]

Will I then be able to install and use mac protools to record and mix with microphones for my rock band setup instead of buying more expensive mac pc? Thanks for your great video sharing deep knowledge clearly always.

[@johncollins5552]

Oh its i5 4th gen my 9020 sff I use.

[@HajaMeliha]

Hi, can you burn it because there are a lot of small things that cannot be implemented? I hope that you burn this version so that it can be installed on a USB.

[@debdutta_s]

love from India

[@syedyousuf3445]

how to get the wifi and bluetooth working on the machine>? help appreciated

[@jensdbe]

Depending on the brand and model of your wifi and Bluetooth adapter you will need to put some additional kexts in the kexts folder. You can find what you need in the guide: dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/ktext.html#wifi-and-bluetooth

[@whitewolf478]

Hello would this work on a newer cpu such as i7 10750h or i5 13500h? And would the graphics card on the laptop be a problem such as rtx 4050 or rtx 3060

[@jensdbe]

Up to 10th Gen CPUs should work fine. Newer is causing challenges as the macOS kernel never got adjusted for P and E cores. Most likely you would need to disable one kind and loose some performance. For the GPU, an Nvidia 3xxx and 4xxx are not supported.

[@whitewolf478]

@jensdbe Thank you for your response. Would you say i would have better chance running vm? I have a rtx 4060 laptop with i7 13700hx. I plan to run sonoma on vm.

[@MrSamPhoenix]

What is the performance compared to M-series chips?

[@jensdbe]

This specific machine is slightly slower than my M1-based MacBook Air. If you would use a newer CPU, you can get similar performance but obviously it would cost more as well.

[@BossBroGaming-e5v]

I keep getting configuration requires vault but no vault provided!

[@jensdbe]

Hmm, I remember seeing this message at some point but completely forgot what I did about it. Did you start with an OC clean snapshot? Is the config.plist in the right location (OC folder)?

[@BossBroGaming-e5v]

@jensdbe I ended up fixing that but now it's stuck on EXITBS:start

[@AmmarIqbal-f7x]

Steps will be same for optiplex 390 i5 2500??

[@jensdbe]

Roughly yes but a 2nd Gen CPU is the Sandy Bridge platform so you will need to follow the steps for that specific platform in the guide.

[@AmmarIqbal-f7x]

@jensdbe Thankuu for your kind reply.

[@ashikurrafi]

Can you make a full detailed tutorial based on PC and Laptop, please. Love from Bangladesh ❤️

[@jensdbe]

It requires specifics for each type of machine and collection of hardware. The best is to use this video as a guideline and go through Dortonia's OpenCore guide step by step and adjust for your system.

[@ashikurrafi]

@ Thank you so much for reply. Dortonia's OpenCore guide is good but some parts are not clear. Can you make a dedicated tutorial on config.plist? Hundred of peoples are searching for it.

[@ashikurrafi]

@@jensdbe Thank you so much for your reply, can you make a tutorial on config.plist? Thousands of people are looking for it.

[@Dave102693]

Hopefully one day Mac OS can run on 3rd party arm hardware

[@jigneshmodi9804]

I am stuck at the open core boot menu Nothing works beyond this

[@jensdbe]

What exactly is the behavior? Do you see the boot options? Does space bar for additional options work? If you have a slower USB drive, it can really take quite some time before you're getting any output as well.

[@jigneshmodi9804]

@jensdbe dear, i am stuck and showing only option 1 open shell.efi, nothing works after this. One thing I have noticed that it completely stuck after pressing space bar.

[@phire4694]

Does the App Store work?

[@jensdbe]

@@phire4694 works fine as far as I tried

[@hapuente]

Is it possible to have this setup with an Nvidia RTX 3090 card and have it work without any problems? Thanks for this great videos, I would love to have a hackintosh in my current PC.

[@jensdbe]

An RTX 3090 will not work in macOS unfortunately. Most modern NVIDIA CPUs do not have any support as Apple and NVIDIA had some conflicts a while ago. Most AMD-based GPUs are supported though.

[@hapuente]

@@jensdbe Thank you very much for your reply. Keep up those good tutorials.

[@mikepxg6406]

With the greatest of respect. if you cant work this out for yourself you will struggle with hackintosh.

[@hapuente]

@ 🤣

[@ITManArif]

can u make efi for my pc?

[@jensdbe]

No, sorry, this really needs access to the hardware in order to do a bit of trial and error besides following the guide roughly

[@kingjusticeakedem]

Please I have AMD risen 5 does it works ?

[@jensdbe]

You need a few different files for AMD CPUs, most likely you will have other components (like audio, Ethernet, etc) as well so the best way is to follow this as a guideline but closely go through each step in the guide and apply that for your specific hardware.

[@mikepxg6406]

Not very well why bother with AMD

[@paramanorma3661]

🥰💯👍❤