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June 16, 2020 ยท View on GitHub

This is based on the work of XStar-Dev here

This config was used on macOS Catalina 10.15.5 with OpenCore 0.5.9.

Laptop specifications

HardwareModel
BIOSHP 8259
CPUIntel i7 7700hq
RAM8GB DDR4-2400
SSD 1128gb M.2 SSD
SSD 2SanDisk 500gb
iGPUIntel HD 630
dGPUNVidia GeForce GTX 1050 (doesn't work)
WiFiIntel 7265 AC (doesn't work)

What works

  • Integrated graphics
  • Keyboard & Touchpad (even with gestures)
  • Brightness adjustment
  • Audio + Audio keys
  • Media keys (Play/pause etc)
  • Ethernet
  • Sleep & Wake with lid close
  • Webcam

What doesn't work

  • The default WiFi chip does not function. There is ongoing work on community made drivers here however I could not get them to work.
  • Once in the blue moon it kernel panics with graphical artifacts (still tracking this one down).
  • CPU Power management & frequency does need some work (custom DSDT dump might fix this).
  • No dedicated GPU on Catalina.

What I didn't test

  • Multi displays