I wanted to create this thread for everyone who wants to hackintosh their blade. This would let people post their success (or failures) and problems that people encounter when creating an OSX partition. It would be great if someone was successful to post a guide on here about all the driver issues and other problems.
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Tennis forgive me for this ignorant question but what would be point of doing this?
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Honestly, with how fast VMWare 10 is you are better virtualizing in exclusive mode. For almost everything a VM of OS X is nearly as fast and works with fewer compatibility issues and less hassle. You can just download a prebuilt OS X image, especially since 10.9 is free, and off you go.
I have a 10.9 VMWare machine I use for iOS development and Mac use and it works great, I can't really tell the difference versus a MacBook Pro. -
I'm interested in this topic as well. I have a Blade pre-ordered to replace my 13" rMBP, but I'm going to have to be blown away by the Blade in order to switch. Call me crazy, but I just love my Mac. Plus, there are several programs that I use on a daily basis that aren't available for PC - Final Cut Pro, Coda, CodeKit, just to name a few.
I had looked into setting up a "Hackintosh" but the process just seems a little dicey to me.
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I didnt know however that VMWare supports OSX on windows. That is a huge help. It would still be great to boot in only OSX as when I do virtual machines the only 8 gigs of ram may be a little lacking.
Also it is fun to just say that you've done it.
Most likely I am going to try, try with an OEM version of OSX so I can do a parallel with windows and mac, and then be able to boot only in mac too so that the files are "synced" across.
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Memememe. I was waiting for one of these threads to appear. I intend to run OS X natively off an external hard drive for a while. Until e someone confirms there's a second M.2 slot in the Blade, following which I will get a 480GB SSD, migrate Windows and the recovery partition to that, and install OS X on the stock drive. Or else it will stay on the external hard drive. Note that RehabMan over at the tonymacx86 forums had lots of trouble getting graphics acceleration to work on a similarly high-resolution screen; he had a Lenovo IdeaPad 2. Hope we have better success rates, what with 10.9.3 on the verge of public release. I don't like VM-ing; I prefer native speeds.
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I'll definitely be watching this thread. Love my MBP, but it's a work computer. I have a lot of side projects that I don't need cluttering up my work environment.
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I too, will be watching this thread. I have an opinion and again this is only my opinion but I feel that the best setup is to have a Gaming Desktop and a Macbook Pro as a laptop. Obviously some people can't afford to have both or are too mobile to have both. But for me and my setup, this works best. And this is coming from a guy who at one point owned 4 Alienwares, and have since migrated.
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That said, I'm still watching/loving the Nvidia Shield and Sony's new game streaming platform. Its not there yet, but eventually I see it overtaking the need for gaming laptops, and possibly even rigs, completely.
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At any rate, I'll update you guys on functionality and stuff, and I'll also try to make a guide. Hopefully we can work together on this...
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Hey i just got my razer blade. any luck hackintoshing yours? I am following the instructions but can't seem to boot the unibeast install on my razor.
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http://www.tonymacx86.com/maverick...locked-msrs-hp-envy-15-j063cl-i7-4700mq.html
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http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...-locked-msrs-hp-envy-15-j063cl-i7-4700mq.html
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That is one side of the board... although remote there is still a possibility of the other side of the board be hiding something.
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Ionising_Radiation ?v = ve*ln(m0/m1)
Ok, let's get back on topic. As far as hackintoshing the Razer Blade, it can be done. Once I get mine, I will try to install the latest version of OS X (hopefully 10.9.3 is released to public by then). What I reckon will be the procedure is that mach_kernel will need to be patched for Haswell CPUs. Then there might be display problems due to the very high pixel density. Hopefully we can get the Blade to boot with graphics acceleration (also known as QE/CI in OS X parlance, which stands for Quartz Extreme/Core Image). Then we will have to do typical laptop stuff: patch AppleHDA.kext for sound/HDMI output, and inject DSDTs. I intend to use the Chameleon/Chimera boot loader first, before trying out Clover.
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So far I'm stumped on terms of hackintoshing this thing. The only method that actually can be recognized on boot up is by using Clover. I am getting error loading drivers and do not know where to go at this point -
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for virtualisation you can use VMware player to run OS X on VM
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Anyone get OSX installed?
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going to follow this also. Not sure what laptop im getting, but I do have a PNY 128gb usb 3.0 thumb drive that would be perfect for a hackintosh.
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Hey guys, sorry to break it to you but I've cancelled my Blade order, instead going for a Clevo W230ST. However, I'll still hang around if you need any help, and I'd like to see how OS X works on the Blade.
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SRSR333 sorry to hear you cancelled you order. It seemed like you had it all planed out with the hackintosh. Ive never had a mac would love to try it on my blade but have no experience on how to hackintosh it. From the research i did i know the hardest part would be getting the screen to work. And finding your user name at insanelymac talking about the screen i thought you would be the one to make it work.
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Ionising_Radiation ?v = ve*ln(m0/m1)
However, I still want to help get OS X fixed on the Blade, so as mentioned, I'm still following this forum, and if you guys need any help, I'm happy to do so, to the greatest extent.
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My Blade should be here Tuesday, and I have Mavericks on a USB. I'll give it a shot
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Here's another blow: the Intel wireless card will NOT work. You need to replace the card, or get a USB dongle. Better replace, or else you won't get iTunes, the App Store and iCloud working.
The Blade is a great machine, but OS X may not work on it, just because of the HD 4600.
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"Apple Releases OS X 10.9.3" ok its out now someone make it work please
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Xentar712 said this:
For those wanting to boot Ubuntu, Gparted and other legacy(non-UEFI) operating systems from USB, you need to follow these steps:
-Boot into UEFI bios
-Under security tab open secure boot menu
-disable secure boot
-Save and exit
-restart back into UEFI bios
-Check the Boot tab. CSM Parameters should now be at the bottom. Go there.
-Change Launch CSM to enabled
-Change Boot Option Filter to UEFI and Legacy
-Change Launch Video opROM policy to Legacy.
You should now be able to boot any legacy USB drives. If you plan to hackintosh, you'll probably have to do this. Your computer will still boot like normal, except the startup graphic will be low res and secure boot will be off(I personally disable this on all my computers but you might feel differently on what's right). The last option changes the graphic to low res and there is no way around it that I could find so far. Most can probably just do all this only when they need to and then change it back when they are done.
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I am using Clover on my flash drive.
I only disabled secure boot from BIOS.
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2014 Blade 14 Inch Hackintosh
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