Run Mac OS Catalina on a Dell Latitude e5570
This guide and anything in the repo comes with no warranty. Use at your own risk! I am not responsible if you get fired because your hackingtosh is broken.
Big thanks to osxlatitude.com it wouldn't be possible without the help of Jake Lo
I have changed the wifi card to a DW1830. With that said most stuff should work on this laptop (I currently use it as daily driver). Except for the following:
- Bluetooth (fixable but I just don't use it)
- Touchpad gestures
- SD Card reader
Get Mac OS running on your laptop
- Follow the Vanilla guide in the sidebar to make a bootable usb with Mojave r/hackintosh
- Mount the EFI partition on the USB with a tool like clover configurator
- Replace the Clover folder in the EFI partition with the contents of clover.zip
- Unmount the EFI partition
- Boot the USB on your Latitude E5570 and install Mac OS on your laptop
- After the installation finished boot from your USB again and select the drive it has installed to.
- Get clover configurator on your new mac
- Now mount the EFI partition of your boot drive
- Replace the Clover folder in the EFI partition with the contents of clover.zip
- Unmount the EFI partition
- Copy kexts from /EFI/Clover/kexts/Other/CopyToLE to /Library/Extensions
- Open a terminal and run:
sudo kextcache -i / - Remove USB and reboot
Fix keyboard shortcuts
- Download and install Karabiner Elements
- Download karabiner.json found in this guide from osxlatitude
- Copy karabiner.json to ~/.config/Karabiner
- You can now use F11 & F12 for brightness
Get smooth scrolling
- Download and install MOS
Thanks for reading. Good luck installing!