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Asus Vivobook S530UN

Mac OS X Monterey 12.3.1 (21E258)

This EFI can be used for previous version of macOS (not recommended)

Specification

• MainBoard: Asus X530UN.
• Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U @ 1.6GHz (KabyLake-R)
• Graphic:
  • Intel UHD620 (1536MB of dynamic memory (shared from the system))
  • NVIDIA GeForce MX150 2GB
• Network:
  • Wifi: Intel 8265/8275 M2 NGFF (802.11 AC (2x2)) (working unstable!!)
  • Ethernet: No
  • Bluetooth: V4.1 (working)
• Audio: Realtek ALC256 (working)
• Touchpad: ELAN 1300 (I2C) (working in Polling mode)
• Storage:
  • SSD Samsung M.2 SATA 256GB
  • HDD TOSHIBA 1TB
• Keyboard: Chiclet keyboard
• Card Reader: microSD CardReader
• WebCam: VGA Web Camera
• Battery: 3 Cells 42 Whrs Battery

WORKING:

• [x] Graphics UHD 620
• [x] Graphics NVIDIA GeForce MX150 (NOT support now)
• [x] Sound
• [x] WiFi
• [x] Bluetooth (broken in macOS 12 beta 10)
• [x] Apple Store
• [x] External USB headphone
• [x] USB 2.0
• [x] USB 3.0
• [x] Adjust brightness
• [x] Fn feature
  • Fn + F1: Mute
  • Fn + F2/F3: Increase/Decrease volume
  • Fn + F4/F5: Increase/Decrease screen brightness
  • Fn + F6: On/Off Touchpad
  • Fn + F7/F8: Increase/Decrease Keyboard Backlight (16 levels)
  • Fn + F9/F10/F11/F12: Home/End/PgUp/PgDown
  • Fn + Space: Play/Pause
  • Fn + Enter : Put Computer to Sleep (run install_daemon.sh as root to make this work)
  • Fn + Esc: On/Off Screen
• [x] Led light keyboard (Fn + F7/F8: Increase/Decrease Keyboard Backlight (16 levels))
• [x] Sleep power
• [x] Battery with Battery Threshold feature (limit charging at 80% for a long-life battery)
• [x] Trackpad (Only working in Polling MODE with VoodooI2C)
• [x] Full 4 cores
• [x] Temporature
• [x] System Fan Control
• [x] Disabling discrete graphics GPU with SSDT Patching
• [x] Ethernet (Using NullEthernet.kext)~~
• [x] Hardware Acceleration
• [x] Power Management and P-States
• [x] iCloud

KNOWN ISSUES

• Bluetooth (broken in macOS 12 beta 10)

INSTALLATION GUIDE

See Installation guide

CHANGELOG

See Changelog

SCREENSHOT

Credits

@RehabMan for his guide for beginner

@alexandred and his team for VoodooI2C

@acidanthera for his OpenCore Bootloader and kexts

@hieplpvip for his AsusSMC kexts

@OpenIntelWireless for his Intel Wifi support

@black.dragon74 for custom FAN control (see https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/10244-how-to-implement-custom-fan-control-on-asus-laptops/ and many more people that I can't list here.