I freaking did it!!!!! Another Dell 9560

I freaking did it!!!!! Another Dell 9560

Took me the better part of Sunday and Monday. Didn't know anything about Hackintosh and then I freaking spent time learning. Things I learnt on the way here:

  1. How to set up a virtual box
  2. How to make a usb installer properly
  3. Turns out my 4gb flash drive wasn't big enough and something called sudo kept messing me up...
  4. Installing the right files/drivers for my system (luckily a ton of already made ones for the dell 9560)
  5. Learning what a kext is...
  6. Hey why isn't the Mac installer seeing my solid state drive?
  7. Oh just turn SSD to ACHI from RAID mode in BIOS? Seems easy enough
  8. Oh god now windows isn't booting
  9. Oh OK change it and get it to boot in safe mode first gotcha
  10. Nice! I have MacOS! Finally can be done with the USB drive
  11. Wait, where did my MacOS go?...
  12. Oh have to install clover again, this time on the drive huh.
  13. Oh macOS doesn't support my wifi card, have to order a $6 off amazon
  14. Cool, cool, wait, why can't I use iMessages like on my phone and iPad??
  15. Oh OK maybe looking around serial IDs and other stuff, playing with it in clover configurator
  16. Still not working
  17. Ethernet Null port to spoof built in adapter needed apparently
  18. Try DSDT installing of the ethernet null port, doesn't work
  19. Try SSDT and it works. Turns out there is also a difference between a kext and the file that injects the kext...
  20. Finally done. I am loving it. Apple Store, iTunes, FaceTime, iMessages, all work perfectly. When the ethernet null port finally worked, my iPhone immediately got a message saying another computer signed into my iMessages! I know all the stuff above probably seem simple to some of you, but for me it was like WTF. Time to rest, this was too much computering for a noob like me. Though getting a 4k MacBook Pro with 16gb ram, 512 SSD and an i7-7700HQ for around ~1300 makes me extremely happy.

Thank you acdop100, RehabMan, and a million others lmao

You can see my USB wifi dongle cause I'm too lazy to open it up and replace it with a real card!

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