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Hackintosh-Aero-15X

Hackintosh for Gigabyte Aero 15X V8 Tested and working (at some point) on macOS High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur.

Please see the following for more details:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-aero-15x-v8-mojave-catalina.287164/

Specs

- Processor: i7-8750H
- Memory: 32GB 2667 MHz DDR4 (Upgraded, originally was 16GB)
- Panel: LCD FHD 144Hz 1920x1080 IPS
- Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5 8GB

I/O | Ports:

- 3x USB 3.1 Gen1 (Type-A)
- 1x Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB Type-C)
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- 1x mini DP 1.4
- 1x 3.5mm Headphone/Microphone Combo Jack
- 1x SD Card Reader
- 1x DC-in Jack
- 1x RJ-45

Misc:
- Internal Speaker
- HD Camera

Notes:

• Original Intel WiFi/Bluetooth was replaced with a macOS compatible one. (Used here: Broadcom BCM94352Z. But the Dell DW1830 should work better if you are dual-booting with Windows)
• Intel WiFi/Bluetooth card can be made usable with itlwm project
• EFI based

How to use this repository:

OpenCore

/EFI/ has a general config for OpenCore. Consider the current supported macOS version of this repository

• EFI/OC: All necessary OpenCore files (with kexts, configs, patches, etc.)
• EFI/Boot: Has other necessary boot files

*Clover is not supported anymore. Last Clover release: 2.2.0-Clover_Latest

Special Multi-Version release

The current special multi-version release are:

2.7.0-SP - 10.13.6, 10.14.6, 10.15.7, 11.6.2 and 12.1

Working

USB Based Devices

• [x] All USB ports (2.0 + 3.0)
• [x] Card Reader (3.0)
• [x] HD Camera (2.0)
• [x] Keyboard (2.0)
• [x] Bluetooth (Internal 2.0)

Network

• [x] Ethernet card
• [x] WiFi + Bluetooth

Power

• [x] CPU power management
• [x] Battery indicator
• [x] USB PM
• [x] Shutdown/*Sleep/Restart
• [x] Ambient Light Sensor & Saving/Restoring screen brightness on reboot
• [x] **Disable eGPU to save power

* For Sleep: Add -wegnoegpu to your boot-args. This disables USB-C external monitor hotplug capabilities

** Prefer to use SSDT-Disable-DGPU.aml patch to save power as it ACPI disables the eGPU. This also disables USB-C external monitor hotplug capabilities (-wegnoegpu can be used in conjunction with SSDT-Disable-DGPU.aml)

Graphics

• [x] Intel graphics card
• [x] HDMI (High Sierra only with Nvidia GC)

Misc

• [x] Sound (internal speakers + mic jack on/off)
• [x] Touchpad + Gestures
• [x] Thunderbolt hotplug (see: POSTINSTALL)

Not working/Issues

• [ ] Nvidia Graphics card (Only High Sierra with WebDrivers)

Support status:

• MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) - NVIDIA Deprecated (Could work but does not receive updates)

• MacOS 10.14 (Mojave), and MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) - Old Stable

• MacOS 11 (Big Sur) - Currently supported version

Special thanks to:

• RehabMan for his great guides, tools, tutorials, DSDTs, kexts and contribution to the Hackintosh community

• acidanthera for all the kexts, tools and contribution to the Hackintosh community

• vit9696 for all the kexts, tools and contribution to the Hackintosh community

• PMHeart for all the kexts, tools and contribution to the Hackintosh community

• al3xtjames for all the kexts, tools and contribution to the Hackintosh community

• Andrey1970AppleLife for all the kexts, tools and contribution to the Hackintosh community

• corpnewt for SSDTTime

• headkaze for his tools and great tutorials

• OpenCore Project for making this possible

• Clover Project for creating Clover bootloader and for making this possible

• aar0npham for testing and giving great feedbacks

• BAndysc for ELAN touchpad support

And many many other people with contributions on these projects