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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, Big Sur and Monterey (currently supported version).

Please see the following for more details*:

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

*May contain outdated info

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

In summary:

• Use EFI folder to boot/install your hackintosh
• Set the SMBIOS information for your installation
• Optionally, apply the CFG lock fix

Special Multi-Version release

The current special multi-version release is:

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

Working

USB Based Devices

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

Network

• Ethernet card
• WiFi + Bluetooth

Power

• CPU power management
• Battery indicator
• USB PM
• Shutdown/*Sleep/Restart
• Ambient Light Sensor & Saving/Restoring screen brightness on reboot
• **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

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

Misc

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

Not working/Issues

• Nvidia Graphics card (Only High Sierra with WebDrivers)

*It's possible to use the Nvidia graphics card with OCLP. This has been tested and was working. I'll not "officially support" this as it's not my current setup

Support status:

• macOS 12 (Monterey) - Currently* supported version

*The efi folder might work on other macOS versions

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