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Dell XPS 9300 (Ice Lake) Hackintosh

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Computer Specs:

Component Name
CPU Intel i7 1065G7
iGPU Intel® Iris Plus Graphics 1536 MB
Lan Unknown
Audio Unknown
Ram 16 GB 3733 MHz LPDDR4X
Wifi + Bluetooth Unknown
NVMe Kingston NV1 500GB M.2 NVMe (the original SK Hynix NVME does not boot in MacOS)
SmBios MacBookPro 13
BootLoader OpenCore 0.7.9
macOS Monterey 12.2.1

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What works and What doesn't or WIP:

  • Intel Iris Plus iGPU HDMI Output (Not supported at the moment)
  • Intel Iris Plus iGPU Type-C to HDMI Output (Not supported at the moment)
  • Intel Iris Plus iGPU - H264 & HEVC
  • Internal Speakers
  • Internal microphone
  • Combojack headphones
  • Combojack microphone
  • HDMI Audio Output (Not supported at the moment)
  • TYPE-C to HDMI Audio Output (Not supported at the moment)
  • All USB-A 3.1 Ports (TYPE-C 3.2 Included)
  • SpeedStep / Sleep / Wake
  • HID Key PWRB & SLPB
  • I2C Touchpad with gesture
  • Keyboard (PS2-Internal) with backlight
  • F6 & F7 Brightness Key
  • F10 Print Screen Key
  • F1 & F2 & F3 Sound Key
  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
  • Realtek LAN
  • SSD NVME PciE Gen3x4
  • Micro SD Cardreader (Internal)
  • WebCam (Internal)
  • All Sensors CPU, IGPU, BATTERY, NVME, FAN
  • ACPI Battery
  • NVRAM (Native)
  • Recovery (macOS) boot from OpenCore
  • Windows 11 boot from OpenCore (not tested but should work)

Special Config:

  • USB port mapping performed
  • SSDT-Hack Essential patch

MacOS bootable USB creation:

  • Read the Dortania guide for creating your USB from Windows or macOS
  • Guide Dortania - USB creation

Bios settings for Bios Version 1.10.0

Enable :

  • SATA Operation : AHCI
  • Fastboot : Thorough
  • Integrated NIC : Enable

Disable :

  • Secure Boot
  • Intel SGX
  • SMM Security Migration
  • Wake on AC
  • Wake on Dell USB-C Dock
  • Power On Lid Open
  • Enable UEFI Network Stack
  • Sign Of Life : Early Logo Display / Early keyboard backlight
  • cfg lock and DVMT: DO AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! It may brick your laptop. But this is the most important step for power management. Without it, the laptop might idle at 70-100 degrees celsius.

(IMPORTANT) Fixing iMessage and other services with OpenCore

You'll need to generate your own of the following for MacOS to work correctly (WON'T WORK CORRETCLY WITHOUT IT):

Make sure to generate the strings to the MacBookPro16,2 model.

  • MLB
  • ROM*
  • SystemProductName
  • SystemSerialNumber *SystemUUID

Link to Guide

This should be done in macOS or linux.

CFG UNLOCK GUIDE

CFG UNLOCK

  1. Copy contents of ZIP above to Downloads folder (~/Downloads/HERE).
  2. Run cfglock.sh as sudo.
  3. Make sure the values are correct.
  4. Edit the script, uncomment putvar and run as sudo again.
  • Apple for macOS.
  • Acidanthera for OpenCore.
  • Dortania For great and detailed guides.
  • Lorys89 For making most of the EFI and configs, and most of the layout of this repo.