Alex Sung Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Fellow Lenovo Owners,I was wondering if anyone in Tech Inferno forums has tried ahem "Hackintoshing" your Lenovo Y400/Y500.I'm not a huge Mac OS X fan but my wife loves Mac OS X. So I was wondering if any you ladies and gents out there have any good tutorials for trying this in my Lenovo Y400. I found a few different articles and the best one I found thus far is this one: The Best Lenovo Hackintosh Laptop of 2012First, can anyone verify if this would theoretically work? Second, has anyone tried this mod themselves?Any tips or advice to point me in the right direction would be appreciated!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrizz Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Fellow Lenovo Owners,I was wondering if anyone in Tech Inferno forums has tried ahem "Hackintoshing" your Lenovo Y400/Y500.I'm not a huge Mac OS X fan but my wife loves Mac OS X. So I was wondering if any you ladies and gents out there have any good tutorials for trying this in my Lenovo Y400. I found a few different articles and the best one I found thus far is this one: The Best Lenovo Hackintosh Laptop of 2012First, can anyone verify if this would theoretically work? Second, has anyone tried this mod themselves?Any tips or advice to point me in the right direction would be appreciated!!!try it and let us know. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WireMesh Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 I would be really interested to see how this goes! If OSX runs good with most of the stuff working on these laptops, I might have to go for a dual boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candylifter Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I've tried installing iAtkos ML2 and S3 on Y500 but unfortunately I had no luck in that. The screen went black just after I pressed to boot the OS X installation. I'm suspecting either my flash drive is faulty somehow or GPU is not supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbro526 Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 The 510p and 410p wont work because they are using haswell cpus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candylifter Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 But Y500/Y400 should work *in theory* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteAchilles Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I've tried installing iAtkos ML3 and Niresh versions, but they can't work. I made a bootable USB. When it boots, it shows the Mac OS screen for 1 second before showing a black screen. The fans will suddenly increase speed before the laptop shuts down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMiNe0 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I personally use VMWare Workstation on my Y410P, so I haven't tested this yet, but in theory you should be able to download the free Virtual Box and setup OS X inside a virtual machine. I don't think the CPU matters due to the CPU emulation. I'm going to try it out on vmware workstation 10 when I get my new wifi card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteAchilles Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 I personally use VMWare Workstation on my Y410P, so I haven't tested this yet, but in theory you should be able to download the free Virtual Box and setup OS X inside a virtual machine. I don't think the CPU matters due to the CPU emulation. I'm going to try it out on vmware workstation 10 when I get my new wifi card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abradner Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 The 510p and 410p wont work because they are using haswell cpusI may have missed something, but why is this a problem given that OSX runs happily on the latest MBA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rplacd Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 I may have missed something, but why is this a problem given that OSX runs happily on the latest MBA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMiNe0 Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Yeap I tried using VMWare Workstation. But it was laggy. I tried to use Multibeast but the installation kept failing... I don't think there are Mac drivers either for the GT750m in my Y400.When you say laggy... Do you mean the video was choppy? That might have something to do with graphic hardware accelleration emulation built into vmware. it can be turned on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candylifter Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 I may have missed something, but why is this a problem given that OSX runs happily on the latest MBA?Previous versions of OS X didn't support Haswell processors but as of 10.8.5 Apple added support for Haswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjannv Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Previous versions of OS X didn't support Haswell processors but as of 10.8.5 Apple added support for HaswellI have a running version of Mountain Lion on my y510p! Did it with the Haswell Helper from tonymacx86 in combination with Unibeast and a image of ML 10.8.4. (my startup flags: -v USBBusFix=Yes)Unfortunatly some of the hardware is not (yet) usable (no sound, no wifi, no graphics). But this could also because of booting in safe mode. When I don't boot in safe mode, it hangs on mounting the windows partitions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geese Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 I was going to try to hack this to run OS X & but now I'm a discouraged, oh well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalmeida Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 The 510p and 410p wont work because they are using haswell cpusAlthough you can use 10.8.5, I'd wait for mavericks and go for the 10.9 with native support for Haswell ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useletters Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I have a running version of Mountain Lion on my y510p! Did it with the Haswell Helper from tonymacx86 in combination with Unibeast and a image of ML 10.8.4. (my startup flags: -v USBBusFix=Yes)Unfortunatly some of the hardware is not (yet) usable (no sound, no wifi, no graphics). But this could also because of booting in safe mode. When I don't boot in safe mode, it hangs on mounting the windows partitions...Hi, can you specify how exactly you did this? I'm trying to install Mavericks on my system(y510p SLI config) using both MyHack and Unibeast with the Mavericks Installation app from Mac App Store. I did this by using a virtualized version of Mavericks on this systemm also. I'd like to have a full hackintosh instead of just virtualizing it. Anyway, in theory, y510p can run Mavericks, just have to change the WiFi card to have it running. Anyway, I'll try what you've posted and booting Mavericks instead. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veekay Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I'd love to have a working OSX setup for the y510p - I lost hackintosh access when changing laptops and have a piece of software that unfortunately is OSX only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crux161 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 A working path to both 10.8 and 10.9 have been found! I recently bought a y510p, SLI model. After a lot of research, I've found that it's possible to get the 10.8 hazard release (I really don't recommend distros) and 10.9 from the App Store with the Pandora installer. I needed use the following kernel flags at first: -v -x -s -f -F PciRoot=1 this is got me to single user, where I was able to strip out all kexts with Graphics drivers. There are instructions for this somewhere (will edit if I come across it again). Reboot. Less the conflicting kexts, you should get to the installer with no more than PciRoot=1. You will need an external keyboard and mouse unless you have the appropriate elan kexts, VoodooPS2 didn't work for me. Results so far: QE/CI is available if you remove the second nvidia ultrabay card. GraphicsEnabler woks well for this using the latest chameleon brach boot loader (part of the awesome Pandora installer). No wireless (Bluetooth worked out of the box though). Lan card nit found at allllll, need whitelist fix, and potentially Broadcom card like real MBPs. No sound, yet. I have hope there's some solution, maybe a DSDT fix eventually. VoodooHDA was a no go here too sadly. Battery PM working with voodoo and patch from pandora installer post install. USB 3.0 working. Card reader works out of the box, and so does the web cam! After er getting the battery's PM working, trackpad stops working (but not keyboard -- functionality comes from the same driver I believe). Was able to get a nice full 1920x1080x32 display with the IGU (ultrabay card removed). Keyboard backlight is built in to the keyboard so that works well too. Trackpad has issues detecting taps and gestures don't work, or randomly sometimes work for a brief moment. Ram detected fully, all 4 slots, with correctly populated info on occupied slots. I used smbios info from a macbookpro 8,1 for this but macbookpro 10,3 is probably more appropriate (uses a similar nvidia 750m ). That's all for now. Hope this helps someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajuil Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I would like to try OSX as well, I got the iatkos ML3 UEFI version, waiting to be flashed to a usb stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panybbib Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Y410P can work well on OS X Mavericks now except the Nvidia GPU and intel Wireless card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theholyfork Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 I wonder if Azurewave AI Blade Mini 802 11AC BCM4352 Up to 867 Mbps 2 4 5GHz Bluetooth 4 0 | eBay this card would work in the Y510P, as it's a broadcom card, which is the type Mac supports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobman555 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I may have missed something, but why is this a problem given that OSX runs happily on the latest MBA?It shouldent have a problem running considering both the new Macbook Air and Pro are running Haswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieterKoblenz Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Did anyone manage to get it running on the Y500 (GT 750m)? I have tried all options in the book, but it isn't working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliob Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 They've probably had a special reshuffling of OS X pre-loaded on them - the least possible tweaking required, perhaps, requiring only specially built kernel manually replaced in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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