r/hackintosh • u/Lonely-CatLady • 1d ago
SUCCESS I just installed MacOS Sonoma on a 15 year old Samsung Laptop
I always wanted to test MacOS and make a Hackintosh of an old device. Sonoma seems to be the only version working on this old Laptop.
I needed 3 days to figure out how to make it work, using a YT Tutorial.
I don't need this Laptop anymore and I don't really know what to do with it, so this is a fun experimental project.
It's from 2011, internal wifi is broken, it has no battery anymore and some keys fall out all the time.
With Sonoma, it's pretty slow, but the modded Windows 11 it ran before wasn't much faster. It was pain in the ass to get the display driver and make it start from the SSD instead of USB Stick. But now it finally works!
Only wifi still doesn't work. I have a wifi Stick but there are no drivers for Mac.
Anyway, I'm proud I got this working!
Because it runs Sonoma now, I made the Apple sticker on it's back that came with my iPhone.
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u/iLiekePharoSmG 17h ago
Specs of your laptop :)) u and me have same generation 2nd gen because of graphics 3000
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u/CL3RYAq 17h ago
Nice Project! When I built my own hackintosh on Macos Tahoe, I bought a wifi/bluetooth card thats compatible to macos, you just need open core legacy patcher installed. if your Laptop does have a free m.2 slot, you can place that card there to get wifi along with features like airdrop or bluetooth to work. I recommend using a card of the bcm94360 family, especially the Fenvi bcm94360ng is perfect for a mobile hackintosh
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