T440p running on MacOS BigSur, Thanks to 2000c43
Beta EFI (Using OpenCore) For BigSur: Download Here
T440p running on MacOS Catalina with i5-4300m, 16GB RAM and 128GB mSata SSD Transcend MTS430S
T440p running on MacOS Mojave with i7 4712MQ, 16GB RAM and Western Digital 500GB SSD + 1TB HDD in Sata Ultrabay
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2.9.4
(#78)1.5.1
1.4.6
1.4.1
r5121
HoRNDIS kext to support online USB installer through USB tethering (share wi-fi connection from your phone with the laptop through USB).
USBPorts.kext
=> USBInjectAll.kext
1.4.8
1.4.3
1.3.8
2.1.3
Custom USBPorts.kext (instead of USBInjectAll.kext) with support for docking station. (USB ports / Audio)
Updated AppleALC, Lilu, WhatEvergreen and VoodooPS2.
Experimental Support for MacOS Catalina 10.15.x
. Tested on 10.15.1
.
Separate DW1820 wifi card config.
Special thanks to @ameeno for this release.
10.14.6
.Initial Release.
Thinkpad T440p Hackintosh configuration. This repository contains the following folders:
EFI
: put this in your EFI partition in EFI
folder, including Boot
and CLOVER
sub-folders,EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
: kexts to install in /Library/Extensions
or your local drive once macOS has been installed.Tested on High Sierra 10.13.6
, Mojave 10.14.6
and Catalina 10.15.6
.
It's a 99.99%
working hackintosh, including:
ApfsDriverLoader-64.efi
and HFSPlus-64.efi
respectively,The bios must be properly configured prior to installing MacOS.
In Security
menu, set the following settings:
Security > Security
Chip: must be Disabled,Memory Protection > Execution Prevention
: must be Enabled,Internal Device Access > Bottom Cover Tamper Detection
: must be Disabled,Anti-Theft > Current Setting
: must be Disabled,Anti-Theft > Computrace > Current Setting
: must be Disabled,Secure Boot > Secure Boot
: must be Disabled.In Startup
menu, set the following options:
UEFI/Legacy Boot
: Both,UEFI/Legacy Priority
: UEFI First,CSM Support
: Yes.Now you can go through the install.
The guide how to create a macOS USB Installer Drive explains how to create a USB flash drive to install MacOs on your T440p.
Copy the content of the EFI
folder provided here on your USB flash drive EFI
partition. The EFI partition is usually hidden. Use Clover Configurator to mount the EFI partition of your flash drive on your mac (it appears as a disk on the desktop once done).
Install macOS by booting on the USB key. It takes about 30min. The computer will restart multiple times. Make sure to select Install macOS ...
each time. Once installed, choose to boot from local drive in Clover boot menu.
To finish the setup, you need to:
EFI
partition (like you did for the USB drive). It will make the local drive bootable (so you can get ride of the USB drive now),You're done! Reboot and enjoy macOS on your Thinpad T440p.
The problem is the following: for some reason when you write the USB from a PC (not a mac) it only writes the online installer, even though it downloads the full offline installer. Why? Good question, haven't figured out yet. Why ethernet won't work? Because in mojave / catalina, recovery it's disabled.
Solutions:
This is why HoRNDIS.kext
has been added to the kexts. Make sure to connect your android phone with an USB cable to your laptop when installing macOS. Share the phone wi-fi connection with the connected laptop.
Once macOS is installed, install Heliport and connect to your favorite wi-fi network. Add Heliport to startup programs to launch it automatically on macOS boot.
If you Sata ssd hasn't trim enabled, run the following command from the Terminal to enable it:
sudo trimforce enable
The trackpoint / Touchpad driver used here is the one from tluck on Insanelymac.
Improving scrolling responsiveness
Turn off 'inertia' at system-pref/accessibility/mouse & trackpad/trackpad options.
Insstall Smart Scroll. under 'Scroll Wheel+' - Turn up 'Range for a single tick' to max. (this gives the appearance that scrolling becomes more sensitive) Then you can adjust the speed and inertia under the same tab.
Fix Stuttering
To solve the jittery mouse, increase the speed with BetterTouchTool to about '8'. The touchpad feels almost the same as on my MacBook now, but the scrolling is still slow and awful. I will solve it somehow!
Special thanks to Romeo Blues for these tweaks. Those definitely improve how the touchpad feels!
When using HDD in Ultrabay (instead of optical drive): install AHCIPortInjector.kext and AppleAHCIPort.kext in /Library/Extensions
.
AHCIPortInjector.kext
fixes the Disk not initialized
issue (disk cannot be read). AppleAHCIPort.kext
fixes the disk being detected as an external drive (instead of internal).
For FHD (1920x1080) panels, I recommend to install One Key HiDPI.
Once the upgrade complete, make sure to rebuild the kext cache to fix brightness control issue, by running in Terminal:
sudo kextcache -i /
Then reboot.
Make sure to following this guide to configure iMessage, iCloud and Facetime properly.
To fix get the card reader working on T440P, do the following (thank you to NoobsPlanet for the initial guide which I have modified specifically for the T440P):
AppleUSBCardReader.kext
,AppleUSBCardReader.kext
and select Show package Contents.IOKitPersonalities > AppleSDCardReader > Physical Interconnect Location
and then edit Physical Interconnect Location value section as External,sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/
sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions && sudo touch /Library/Extensions && sudo kextcache -u /
Reboot and enjoy working memory card!