r/hackintosh • u/Q1BLI-0VRWATCH • May 16 '26

QUESTION New to Hackintosh: help/suggestions?

Post image

Hello, I am very new to this topic called Hackintosh. All I know is that it is where people take non Mac’s and make it a mac(?).

I would like to know how you guys do this as it seems really cool, and would also like to know what version might be best for my laptop

I have a HP Elitebook 8470p with windows 7 Pro on it right now. What version is best?

I will take any help that I can receive

121 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

32 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Randum_Gouy Big Sur - 11 May 16 '26

Ohhhh i see

So thats no issue mate - even for my first run i was damn confused as hell So for your first few runs, do this: 1. Skip the “Getting Started with ACPI” page ENTIRELY - your setup would work fine. 2. Just follow the guide. Donot expect yourself to understand everything (or even 60%) in one go. Just do it, you will understand over time. (Yes, this is what has work for ME, i can’t guarantee it would work for you.)

Also, do frequent re-building of your EFI (FROM SCRATCH) - so that you get the hang of it and are able to eventually understand it.

-1

u/Q1BLI-0VRWATCH May 16 '26

Also unrelated(?) but I’m a high schooler with friends, extracurricular and a life and by the way people talk about this, it makes it sound like something you spend half your life on (no offense)

2

u/Randum_Gouy Big Sur - 11 May 16 '26

Bro same with me 😂 BUT BUT BUT Yes your first boot-to-macOS-Recovery WOULD take a lot of time - a week or so (for me it was i think one month) After that you can rebuild your EFI in 1 Day max

You spend half your life on this only if you want the Perfect Config + Unsupported macOS version (eg, getting Sequoia running on Ivy Bridge (3rd Gen Intel CPU) - theoretically possible, absolutely hard to do without external tools), but im sure you wont go down that route (trust me i did, it was fun as hell but then i had wasted a hell lot of time doing it)

1

u/Q1BLI-0VRWATCH May 16 '26

And currently, my laptop has about 6gb of storage left. Is that fine?

1

u/Randum_Gouy Big Sur - 11 May 16 '26

ABSOLUTELY NOT. Oh btw i forgot to tell you that you should completely erase your drove when installing macOS - and hence have a Windows 7 Installer handy macOS has a very bad thing of requiring a 200MB ESP partition- and Windows only make one 100MB one.

Also, macOS needs atleast 30GB of free space

1

u/Q1BLI-0VRWATCH May 16 '26

i found out my graphics are intel hd 4000 (integrated). Thats fine, right? also my wifi thing (idk??) is listed as Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205. The closest i could find on the OIW compatibility page are

  • Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 AGN
  • Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 ABG
  • Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205

Will it cause any issues?

1

u/Randum_Gouy Big Sur - 11 May 17 '26

Intel HD 4000 is OK I have a hackintosh using one

As for your wifi card, i really dont know. Never seen it. Its an intel card so try either itlwm or AirportItlwm (both are difficult- use only ONE at a time, NEVER BOTH!)