mydevilroot / thinkpad-x270-opencore

Hackintosh configuration for MacOS Ventura (13.1) under Thinkpad X270 (20HMS00T00)

thinkpad-x270-opencore

Supported OS

• macOS 13.1 (Ventura)

Laptop's Hardware

• Model: Thinkpad X270 (20HMS00T00)
• CPU: Intel Core i5-7200U 2 x 2.5 - 3.1 GHz, Kaby Lake
• GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620
• RAM: 8 GB 2400MHz DDR4
• Screen: 12,5" (1920x1080)
• Wi-Fi: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
• Camera: 720p
• Battery: 3-cell with inside battery

Bios settings

Security

• Security Chip Disabled
• Memory Protection -> Execution Prevention Enabled
• Virtualization -> Intel Virtualization Technology Enabled
• Virtualization -> Intel VT-d Feature Enabled
• Anti-Theft -> Computrace -> Current Setting Disabled
• Secure Boot -> Secure Boot Disabled
• Intel SGX -> Intel SGX Control Disabled
• Device Guard Disabled

Startup

• UEFI/Legacy Boot UEFI Only
• CSM Support No

What's Working?

• Intel HD 620 Graphics (incuding graphics acceleration)
• CPU Power Management
• Battery
• All USB ports
• HDMI port (including HDMI Audio)
• Intel Ethernet port
• Audio
• Trackpad (gestures work but not the trackpad click. tap to click works.)
• Shutdown / Reboot
• Keyboard (incuding all fn Keys)
• Wi-Fi
• iMessage, FaceTime, App Store, iTunes Store (with valid smbios)
• DRM support (iTunes Movies, Apple TV+, Amazon Prime and Netflix, and others)
• Sleep / Wake (lid sleep and lid wake) (works for me you can try for yourself)

What's not working? ⚠️

• Internal camera (including Facetime)
• Bluetooth (I will try to fix that)

thinkpad-x270-opencore's Issues

Can't continue with installation

Hello brother!!
First of all, thanks for sharing your work!!

I have a question as I faced problem with getting this installed to my X270 with similar settings - i5-7200U, 16GB RAM, and 256GB SSD - the only difference is, the ram size.

I got the opencore patcher to make the installer USB and put your EFI's into the EFI partition.
And then, I was able to get into the installation process, so I did install it to my SSD.
And after that, the system reboot, and when I chose the macos install partition installed to my ssd, it soon reboots again.
It seems, with your EFI's I can get into the installation process, but continuing installation doesn't seem to work.

Any idea what could have been wrong with me??
Should I do something else?

I get an endless reboot

Hello! I'm trying to flash the Ventura image with your EFI and at some stage of the installation I get an endless reboot. Your computer parameters are the same as yours.

Trackpoint mouse buttons only right click

With my X270 tap to click can be used (when enabled in macos settings) and the click also works.

But all physical keys/buttons above the trackpad are mapped to be a right click.

@mydevilroot Is this also the case with your model?

Inspecting the hardware using debian, dmidecode gives the following infos

Handle 0x0032, DMI type 21, 7 bytes
Built-in Pointing Device
        Type: Touch Pad
        Interface: PS/2
        Buttons: 2

checking /proc/bus/input/devices gives the following information:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 
B: PROP=5
B: EV=b
B: KEY=e520 610000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=660800011000003

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000a Version=0000
N: Name="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
P: Phys=synaptics-pt/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event6 
B: PROP=21
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

So I have a synaptics touchpad/trackpad.