Just keep Stonevil’s guide open in a tab and refer to it when needed. This is what two users on the Tonymacx86 forums adapted for the Stealth, so it’s helpful to see the original work.
Then you should look at Stonevil’s GitHub for the early 2019 Razer Blade Advanced, which is a different laptop but close enough that a lot of their tutorial applies. I was able to get it up and running macOS Mojave in a weekend, but it wasn’t easy, and I couldn’t have done it without the help of some seriously smart hobbyists out there putting in the real work. Those new scissor-key 13 inch MacBook Pros may change that, and trust that I will be partaking (eventually.)īut I wanted a faster hackintosh with a dedicated GPU now, so I decided to pick up the older Stealth. There is a newer model that uses Intel’s new i7-1065G7 10th generation chip and a GTX 1650 GPU, but this processor isn’t supported by macOS yet. The early 2019 Razer Blade Stealth (henceforth referred to as the Stealth) isn’t the last generation Stealth: it comes with an i7-8565U processor and an Nvidia MX150 graphics card. It should be noted that you can't actually use the dedicated graphics card in macOS for a few complicated reasons, but you can at least dual boot into Windows for that sweet graphics acceleration. As I said above, simply finding a laptop that’s good for macOS these days isn’t easy, so when I found out that there’s a small community of people supporting the early 2019 Razer Blade Stealth, I had to jump in.
I was interested in a hackintosh laptop not to save money, but because I love a challenge and wanted something a little more powerful.Īnyway, I was interested in a hackintosh laptop not to save money, but because I love a challenge and wanted something a little more powerful than what Apple offers. In this strained metaphor the fruit is a nice laptop that runs macOS. With modern hackintosh you download the seeds and grow the fruit yourself, but for most people just buying the fruit makes more sense. One thing that has always been true is that, at the upper end, it almost always makes more sense to just buy a MacBook Pro. No: I spent a weekend just trying to find a laptop with the right qualities: a replaceable Wi-Fi card (most new laptops have unsupported Wi-Fi cards soldered right in), and a recent processor but not the newest, because Apple hasn’t used them in real MacBooks yet.
See, getting macOS to run on your laptop isn’t like it was back in the good old days where you just download some sketchy software off the internet and get what you get.
Plus I was in need of a new personal laptop, so I thought: this is a project I can waste a weekend on.Īnd waste an entire weekend I did.
Just getting a 2017 MacBook Pro out of our IT department required moderate arm twisting, but its Kaby Lake processor left me pulling my hair out. However, I decided to walk the dark and twisted path of hackintosh in pursuit of better performance in Photoshop. You can use a USB Wi-Fi adapter, but you shouldn't.