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by sail0rm00n 2307 days ago
Are you running macOS on your thinkpads? Do you have details on how to do so? Super curious if that’s the case.
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lostgame 2307 days ago
Super, super easy. Linux-distro-install level easy.

Since Catalina randomly decided to destroy access to about 1/3rd of my software (I rely on old-school music plugins that won’t be updated) - I’m gonna link you here to the Mojave tool: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

This is not my tool, it does require a Mac to use, in order to create the USB boot key you put in your PC.

I have successfully patched about a dozen ThinkPads and Dell computers with this.

Due to the ThinkPad’s popularity - support for virtually every unit that can support it hardware-wise exists. If you have any issues, there’s a great community around it, and personally, after patching, I don’t even worry about .x upgrades anymore and leave auto-update on - that’s how far it’s come.

I literally prefer the Lenovo to the Apple hardware.

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missjellyfish 2307 days ago
dosdudes Tool is for running macOS on Apple Hardware That is unsupported (e.g. too old). Still not that hard, check out /r/hackintosh.

And be prepared to swap your WiFi card, intel cards are unsupported, so are nvidia graphics.

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gowld 2306 days ago
> so are nvidia graphics.

Is there a workaround (replaceable card?), or does running Mac OS mean you can't use discrete graphics (which is a major degradation)?

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missjellyfish 2305 days ago
You can use Radeon cards, some are supported and when they are they run decently. But anything other than a GTX760 is not going to work, and I can assure you that the drivers Apple ships for this card are absymal.
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lozaning 2307 days ago
Yep, very easy. It'll take you maybe 4 hours, most of which will be downloading the prebuilt image of Catalina and watching install bar progress.

https://github.com/mighildotcom/X230-Hackintosh is the guide i followed, it is very x230 specific, but should give you a good idea of the overall process.

Very occasionally I'll have a slight issue with resume from sleep, but otherwise pretty much everything just works. You will need to buy a new wifi card, and depending which you want to use may need to reflash a modified bios to get rid of the whitelist.

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beckler 2307 days ago
https://hackintosh.com/ is my guess.
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