In Progress: Sierra (10.12) on a ThinkPad T430
Brightness fix: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-lenovo-t430-el-capitan.175935/page-3#post-1132884
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/lenovo-t430-mavericks.131428/#post804109
https://github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch
https://github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch/blob/master/graphics/graphics_PNLF_ivy_sandy.txt
https://github.com/RehabMan/Laptop-DSDT-Patch/blob/master/graphics/graphics_Rename-VID_AGP1.txt
Disk Utility -> Erase
- USB
- Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
- GUID Partition Map
Unibeast installation
- Settings: USB, Sierra, UEFI
Run Clover Installer (Clover_v2.4k_r4061.pkg)
- Change Install Location: USB Drive
- Customize: (check the following)
- Install for UEFI booting only
- Install Clover in the ESP
- Drivers64UEFI > OsxAptioFix2Drv-64
- Drivers64UEFI > OsxAptioFixDrv-64
- Themes > BGM (RehabMan's config files use this specific theme)
Copy over kext files, HFSPlus.efi, and config that you need to boot
- Remove EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, leaving just 'Other'
- copy HFSPlus.efi to EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI (https://github.com/JrCs/CloverGrowerPro/raw/master/Files/HFSPlus/X64/HFSPlus.efi)
- copy the appropriate config.plist with your screen resolution to EFI/CLOVER/config.plist (you will have to rename it if you get it from here: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Clover-Laptop-Config)
- copy the following to EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other:
- I COPIED THESE FROM X230: https://github.com/xxx10101xxx/ThinkPad-X230-macOS-10.12.x/tree/master/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- FakeSMC.kext (https://www.tonymacx86.com/resources/fakesmc.325/)
- NullCPUPowerManagement.kext (https://www.tonymacx86.com/resources/nullcpupowermanagement.268/)
- VoodooPS2Controller (https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller or https://bitbucket.org/RehabMan/os-x-voodoo-ps2-controller/downloads/)
HDDs:
- Notes:
- most systems will work without DataHubDxe-64.efi, but some may require it
- you might want "EmuVariableUefi-64.efi", but it would depend on whether native NVRAM works for you (most Skylake hardware has non-functional native NVRAM with OS X/macOS)
Patch SSDT to enable native CPU power management: - ssdtPrGen.sh - sudo sh ssdtPrGen.sh - copy SSDT.aml from ~/Library/ssdtPRGen/ to /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI in your EFI System Partition - delete NullCPUPowerManagement.kext in /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ in the EFI System Partition - reboot
macOS unsurprisingly has very Unix shortcut key configuration that makes you wonder why something like this is so hard for Microsoft to figure out.
It's legitimately as simple as opening a System Preferences > Keyboard dialogue, and manually typing in ANY menu bar command you want executed when you type a certain key combination in an application or globally. The fact that Automator can add its scripts to your menubar under "Services" means you can effectively bind a key combination to do literally anything.
VoodooPS2 also binds three-finger-swipe to ctrl-cmd-[DIRECTION], so we can bind it to back and forward (and whatever you want up and down to do) in our web browser.
Here's a cheatsheet (keep in mind that I already created the "launch terminal" Service in Automator):
You now have a fully functional Thinkpad T430 Hackintosh to install Google web apps and Microsoft text editors on.
The ideal scenario for me is having a Unix or Unix-like operating system on my laptop that still has an attractive, user-friendly desktop environment. macOS fits the bill. Dual booting Windows offers unlimited versatility, even when I'm not at home with my main Windows computer.
- If you want to use the trackpoint, you have to set the cursor sensitivity to minimum which effectively renders your touchpad useless. You can press
PrtScto disable the touchpad.