ThinkPad-P52-Hackintosh

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Status - Discontinued

Introduction (QQ Group Chat: 97986046)

Tips: If you want to use built-in network adapter, you'd better buy a new pcie card, and I suggest DW1560 or DW1830, considering about the size and space. Also, P52 does not have whitelist upon WLAN hardware, you even do not need to modify your BIOS

Installing Guides

• Simplified Chinese Video Guides | Bilibili.com
• Thanks to z for supporting the guides video

Releases (Until 2021/7/21)

• Download from repo. Not released to the tag yet, since macOS-12 is still in beta progress.

Releases (Until 2020/8/18)

• The latest version: V4.2
• Download Here

Updates (Until 2021/7/21)

• Update to OpenCore 0.7.1 official version
• Support macOS 12.0 beta
• Add support for intel wireless NIC.
• Only tested on the Xeon-E3 & 4k platform.

Updates (Until 2020/8/18)

• Update to OpenCore 0.6.0 official version
• Support macOS 11.0 beta 4
• Fix a few minor bugs

Updates (Until 2020/2/12)

• Add device support for P53 and P73

Updates (Until 2020/1/22)

• RAM 32GB single slot is supported natively
• AppleALC is merged in the official version. The CODE has been merged in acidanthera's GitHub

Updates (Until 2020/1/14)

• Happy New Year!!
• Update Clover version to r5103

Updates (Until 2019/12/17)

• Customize the AppleALC, add Layout-ID 52 to the appleALC kext.
• Update Clover version to r5100
• Support Catalina macOS 10.15.3 beta1

Updates (Until 2019/11/10)

• Fully supports macOS 10.15.2 Catalina
• USB3.1 supported under macOS Catalina

Updates (Until 2019/10/7)

• Fully supports macOS 10.15 Catalina

Updates (Until 2019/8/21)

• 10.15 beta 6 is supported
• Touchpad is supported, 5 finger-touch is detected
• Fans Speed could be detected
• Thunderbolt 3 was improved

Updates (Until 2019/7/24)

• The new version uses ssdt, aka the hotpatch, and ThunderBolt 3 ports are supported, and eGPU is supported.
• 128G DDR4 version P52 can boot up
• Xeon E2176m version P52 can boot up
• Core i7-8750H, i7-8850H, i9-8959HK, Xeon E2176m are supported
• We are close to the perfect
• Brightness control hotkey works properly
• IR camera is disabled to avoid the default camera switched to IR camera
• Touch Screen & Stylus works

Touchpad

• Solved with VoodooSMBus, and 5 finger could be detected
• ~~It seems that the full gesture will be enabled, I haven't tested it yet. If anyone has interest in it, try the kext, patches and instructions mentioned in the following link, ELANSMBus~~

What do you need

• Lenovo ThinkPad P52 Series Notebook, It seems that P72 can also work with this clover, not tested
• Mojave disk image is prepared, normally .dmg file, 10.14 & 10.14.2 & 10 ver.14.3 version has been tested
• USB storage (at least 8 Gigabytes)
• Broadcom DW1560 or DW1830 WLAN PCIE card (DW1830 requires modified antenna)

BIOS Configuration

• Boot mode: UEFI
• Display mode: Hubrid Graphics
• security boot- disabled
• Storage mode: AHCI (If you are in RST mode, you need to switch it to AHCI mode)

Full Compatibility

• Boot clover with UEFI mode
• Built-in keyboard (partial function key and Num keyboard works well)
• native USB3 / USB2 ports (USB type-c can work, ~~but two thunderbolts has not been tested~~)
• AppleHDA native audio, Speakers + Internal Mic + Headphone
• Built in Camera
• Native power management
• Battery Status (Percentage can be displayed)
• Brightness control
• Backlit keyboard (Use Fn + space)
• INTEL iGPU UHD 630 1536MB Vram (DGPU has been disabled by hotpatch)
• Ethernet port
• Mac App Store works normally
• CPU SpeedStep
• Sleep + Wake
• Multitouch Touchpanel
• Wireless LAN [Broadcom DW1560(OEM by Dell), DW1830(OEM by Dell), BCM94352Z(OEM by Lenovo), BCM943602BAED(OEM by Lenovo), BCM94360CS2(OEM by Apple), BCM943602CS(OEM by Apple)]
• Bluetooth
• AirDrop, AirPlay and HandOff
• Trackpoint
• 4K display (Use 4K version config)
• Thunderbolt works properly, even connecting to eGPU using graphics dock.

Partially working devices

• ~~Touchpad can work with one finger gesture by using VoodooPS2 kext~~
• ~~in the future touchpad can work with ApplePS2SmartTouchPad kext by patching hopefully~~

Disabled devices

• HDMI, HDMI port is connected with disabled NVIDIA DGPU (Use ThunderBolt eGPU to connect the external monitor, we recommand you using AMD Radeon RX series or Vega series)
• LTE WWAN card (L850GL)

System Screen Shot

System Info

RAM Slots

Displays

eGPU & Thunderbolt3

eGPU connected via ThunderBolt3 graphics card dock

Power menu

USB ports

Graphics

Audio

Power

wifi

Bluetooth