2014 Blade 14 Inch Hackintosh

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.

 

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.

Interesting. I'm new to the topic of virtualization. Which of VMWare's products do you need to set this up? Is it the Workstation edition? I didn't notice anything in the description that says it's compatible with OSX. Also, do you know how I can download and save the ISO file for 10.9?

 

The only reason for doing so would be to do iOS development, and I have an iPhone, its kinda nice to be able to text on my computer once in awhile.

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.

I will post my progress of doing this when I try.

 

one quick tip, if you setup a dual boot hackintosh create an EXFAT or Fat32 partition so you can have common data on there as OSX can not natively write NTFS and converters and third party apps have been known to be a nuisance. and no 8GB will not be lacking. I run one all the time on 6 ( 3 windows 7, 3 OSX 10.8 )

 

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.

 

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.

 

I totally agree. Its the setup I have now and it does damn near everything. There are just those times when I travel for business, visit relatives, go to LAN parties, etc. Where having a laptop with a little more oomph then the MBP would be great. The RB14 fits that nicely.

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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When you say oomph, did you mean graphics? Sorry to say, but OS X doesn't support Nvidia Optimus (its common knowledge in the laptop hackintosh community). You'll have to rely on the HD 4600 only in OS X. If you're using it for rendering work, might as well get a 13" Retina MBP. Unless you meant that you'd use Windows only, in which case I eat my words.

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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I meant oomph from a gaming standpoint, not a hackintosh standpoint. I would dive into the mac world to use tools available only on that platform for development and to take advantage of streamlined SSH, etc. We use a lot of Linux/Unix servers at work, and I just move a lot faster from the Linux/Unix command-line. That said, there are some applications available on OSX that I find essential for some of the work I do, as well as some corporate software that I need, otherwise I'd just boot Linux.

 

Ah, yeah, I knew I misinterpreted what you'd said. Anyways, let's hope we get OSx86 up and going on our Blades when we get it.

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I agree with this. I own a late 2013 MBPr and also owned a M11x, but now I got the M18 with my husband so we can travel from room to room to play games. The main desktop is too heavy for that

Desktops give a ton more power though but you lose a bit of portability lol.

 

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.

 

I suppose you're following tonymacx86's instructions. You first have to patch mach_kernel for Haswell machines. Then see how it works. Recommend you read this post:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/maverick...locked-msrs-hp-envy-15-j063cl-i7-4700mq.html

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the link you provided did not open.

 

Works fine for me... O.O Try this (it's the same link, without formatting)

http://www.tonymacx86.com/mavericks...-locked-msrs-hp-envy-15-j063cl-i7-4700mq.html

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Have you gotten Mavericks/OSX to load on your new Razer yet?

 

I haven't even gotten my new Blade yet, let alone loading OS X on it. How's yours working?

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I have been trying to use different methods but honestly I don't know what I'm doing lol. Please update me when you get yours! I'm confident this computer can be hackintoshed. The wifi chip is also an intel as well. I'll open it up tonight to see exactly what it is. BTW it only has 1 M.2 sata slot

 

Have you fully disassembled it so you could look both sides of the mobo? Do you have pictures of it disassembled?

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From the pictures that automattic posted in the ship date thread it looks like only one sata slot

 

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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Whats the point of hiding one slot where nobody could reach then.

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Not hiding by purpose but just where it fit in the board design have you seen how crowed it is on the top? Also they don't want us to reach anything anyway thus the warranty void stuff, and we could reach it anywhere as long as the one who is doing it knows what he is doing and don't break anything... btw did u know the cpu and gpu in the gs60 are in the other side of the board, so if you want to repaste you will have to find it "hidden" there... plus I am just wondering I am not saying it has or should have... cheers

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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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Can you PLEASE do a write up once you hackintosh your new razer? I confident that many people are interested in a hackintoshed razer blade 14. I just got mine but I am too novo to actually get any progress in hackintoshing this machine.

 

Yeah, sure. I do intend to do a guide when I receive it. Do note that I will install on an external USB hard drive.

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Quick question, when you do the guide, will you be doing it so you can also run parallels/vmware at the same time and have the files synched if booted signally in one OS. Or are you just booting it in OSX and removing the windows side?

 

Ah, no. I don't want to get rid of Windows (that's why I plan to install on an external hard drive). I'll see if I can virtualise either OS. Will update when I get my Blade.

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Just curious but when will you be getting your Razer? Been playing on mine and the graphics card is a lot more powerful than I anticipated.

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

 

Oh, mine says 8/5/2014. So that's a couple days more. I'll do my best to see what we can do.

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for virtualisation you can use VMware player to run OS X on VM


That is to run mac os on top of windows

 

Anyone get OSX installed?

 

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.

 

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.

 

Ah, well, I thought I would, too. I did have it all planned out, but I realised there were cheaper compromises that could be made. The Clevo (which can be customised to no end), is about S$600 (about US$480) cheaper than the Blade at my configuration.

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

 

That would be great.

 

If you figure it out please post a guide! I've been trying to figure if out to no avail. I'm pretty sure with enough people invested we can get a pretty amazing and compatible hackintosh

 

Not likely, man. I've been following your post at tonymacx86, and like RehabMan said, it's going to be a very uphill battle. Sorry to burst your bubble, but there have been several cases of laptops not being able to be hackintoshed, solely because graphics didn't work, especially with older laptops with the Intel GMA GPU. Now, if you could find some way to modify the BIOS to include options for enabling/disabling Optimus, then perhaps you have some hope. Or, you wait for OS X 10.9.3 to be released, and create another installer from scratch, to see how it works (because 10.9.3 has improved support for 4K displays).

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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Good info, I'm not capable enough to get this installed then. Guess I'll have to wait.

 

"Apple Releases OS X 10.9.3" ok its out now someone make it work please

 

time to work on hackintosh

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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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Are you using UniBeast, or you made your own installer with Clover?

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I am using Clover on my flash drive.
I only disabled secure boot from BIOS.

Now it stuck at Start com.apple.launchd

 

Yep, you've gotta follow Xentar's instructions. Change your BIOS settings as he mentioned.

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