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Hackintosh for Thinkpad X1 Extreme-Update History

2020

Feburary Updates

  • [20200202] Officially closing this project. Thanks everyone! It's been fun.

January Updates

  • [20200124] Happy the 4718th Lunar New Year everybody!

2019

December Updates

  • [20191227] Reached 200 Stars!!
  • [20191225] Released Christmas Build 10.15.2 V3.7 for improvement in stability.
  • [20191213] Released 10.15.2 V3.6.
  • [20191202] Updated BIOS to N2EET43W 1.25.

November Updates

  • [20191114] It's been perfected.
  • [20191102] Congrats team China for winning the second place in Overwatch World Cup 2019!!
  • [20191101] I guess I shall call this perfect and focus on other things in my life. It's been a fun year.

October Updates

  • [20191030] Happy one year birthday to my X1E!
  • [20191029] Direct upgrade to macOS 10.15.1 is supported. Nothing to note. V3.4 is pretty much the same as V3.3.
  • [20191017] Solved eGPU. See "eGPU" section below. Now X1E is fully complete with everything supported. Yea!
  • [20191016] Added "32 bit program" and "repasting guide" section in the resource section. Read them.
  • [20191015] It looks like PB10(19A582a) is GM Seed and it is newest. My machine works normal on GM...
  • [20191010] Looks like the final version of Catalina has some problems...? I will stay on PB10 for a while :P
  • [20191008] Welcome to Catalina everyone! It's been quite a while for Catalina to get ready.
  • [20191003] Stable direct upgrade to PB10.
  • [20191001] Happy 70th birthday to China! Also to my dear dad :)

September Updates

  • [20190930] Released minor update v10.15.0.3.3, not mandatory.
  • [20190928] Direct upgrade to PB8 is fine. Nothing special needed.
  • [20190920] Bypassed the external 4K60 scaling limit. Instruction down below.
  • [20190913] Direct upgrade to PB7 is fine. Happy mid-autumn festival everyone!
  • [20190910] Released v10.15.0.3.2 based on discussion in issue #40. Significantly improved touchpad performance.
  • [20190906] Updated BIOS to 1.24. System behaves stable.
  • [20190902] Updated Clover to v5058, released a minor update v10.15.0.3.1.

August Updates

  • [20190829] Directly upgrade to PB6 is fine. However, be careful as this might clear your desktop's files...
  • [20190820] Updated to 10.15.0 PB5. Still works.
  • [20190817] Happy birthday for the man who changed China!
  • [20190808] Deprecated V2, released V3.0. VirtualSMC sucks...
  • [20190806] Released v10.15.0.2.0 beta, moving away from FakeSMC to VirtualSMC.
  • [20190805] Updated AppleALC.kext, improved stability, released v10.15.0.1.3.
  • [20190802] Updated to macOS 10.15.0 PB4, and v10.15.0.1.2 still works.
  • [20190801] Added "Fan Issues" for situations when fans don't turn on under load.

July Updates

  • [20190731] Added "Memory Issue" section for systems that has 64GB memory.
  • [20190729] I was looking at this post for updating to clover 5XXX and sleep issue to solve battery drain...
  • [20190728] Added a guide to customize the "About This Mac" page.
  • [20190725] Updated readme.MD with touchscreen and displaylink issues based on a discussion.
  • [20190724] Updated BIOS to 1.23, no major issue or changes.
  • [20190723] Released v10.15.0.1.2 that disabled the integrated IR camera. Merged change in Issue#33
  • [20190721] Released an incremental update v10.15.0.1.1, attempting to fix the sleep and hybernation issue.
  • [20190720] Unknown issue of significant battery drain (40% in 8 Hours) during sleep in Catalina.
  • [20190719] Just updated to Public Beta 3 and v10.15.0.1.0 still works for PB3.
  • [20190717] So far so good, hadn’t encounter any bug in Catalina, which is very good for the first beta.
  • [20190715] Do NOT upgrade Clover to 4988 or higher. It doesn't quite work. (Blackscreen after bootload)
  • [20190710] Added badges for the versions. Yayyyyyy!!!
  • [20190706] Achieved initial Catalina support :) Released v10.15.0.1.0.
  • [20190703] Fixed an issue for AppleALC not working properly, released v10.14.5.1.3.
  • [20190702] It seems like there is a Lenovo implementation of DL6950 ext display. Issue
  • [20190701] Updated many extensions and released v10.14.5.1.2.

June Updates

  • [20190628] Studying abroad in Greece. Not gonna update so much. Will try Catalina if I got time.
  • [20190615] Wrote a Chinese Readme.MD, to help my Chinese friends!
  • [20190614] Released a minor update on clover bootloader. Version v10.14.5.1.1.
  • [20190613] Sidenote: I got a Logitech G Pro Wireless yesterday and wow, awesome. (Not advertisement)
  • [20190612] Hmmmmm so far...so good? I will be traveling during the summer, so probably won't update much.
  • [20190604] Thanks for zysuper's effort, you can actually buy a adapter card than soldering your own. Cheers!
  • [20190603] Let's welcome macOS Catalina, shall we?
  • [20190602] Added support for 10.14.5, released V1.0 for 10.14.5.
  • [20190601] Happy children's day humans!

May Updates

  • [20190531] BCM94360CS2 is probably causing my laptop's macOS AND Windows (What???) to freeze, back to 2CS.
  • [20190525] Switched to BCM94360CS2, seems like there is no problem...?
  • [20190524] Due to there is no new features in 10.14.5, I will NOT upgrade. Please tell us how it goes if you do! :)
  • [20190523] Let's take a moment to pay respect to our hero Hongyu Wu, heroes never die!
  • [20190522] Updated some minor things in Readme.MD.
  • [20190520] Lenovo announced X1 Extreme 2nd Generation. This project is for the 1st generation.
  • [20190510] Some improvements in Bluetooth. Now I shall conclude this project is 100% perfect.
  • [20190503] Solved Bluetooth Issue. Pictures
  • [20190501] Happy labor day humans.

April Updates

  • [20190430] Made a ribbon cable to connect to smartcard reader. See Pictures.
  • [20190429] Released an optional update v10.14.4-V1.2, more in description.
  • [20190428] So far so good so no updates. It just works.
  • [20190418] Oh so it turns out that you can use a USB BT adapter and use Airpods 2 as usual. Sweeeeeeeeeet.
  • [20190417] Displaylink has its own known limitations (cannot rescale 4K to 1080P in 60FPS). So just use native 4K.
  • [20190416] Released v10.14.4-V1.1. Fixed an issue with AppleALC.
  • [20190415] Had HDMI output working via USB Displaylink.
  • [20190415] Released 10.14.4-V1.0.
  • [20190414] macOS 10.14.4 is NOT a safe update. Will release 10.14.4 soon.
  • [20190409] Addressed and closed some issues that other humans had in the issues module.
  • [20190402] This work is now issued under the 996 License.

March Updates

  • [20190327] Made a note in readme.MD about BCM94360CS2 and BCM943602CS.
  • [20190326] Glad to be indexed by Hackintosh Laptop Index.
  • [20190320] Released v10.14.3.1.3, a stable update.
  • [20190317] darkal presented a somewhat decent external display workaround if you have a 1080P screen.
  • [20190315] So far so good with USB BT. The only issue left is display output, which so far nothing we can do.
  • [20190314] Happy pi day humans.
  • [20190311] Updated readme.MD regarding on an OpenGL issue on 10.14.3.
  • [20190307] New VoodooPS2 Driver add in multi-touch genture support. Released in v10.14.3.1.
  • [20190303] Updated to 10.14.3 and Clover v4895.

Feburary Updates

Janurary Updates

  • [20190120] Released v10.14.0.2 according to andyy24 in Issue#9 to fix a trackpoint issue.
  • [20190111] Got BCM943602CS working. Turned out I didn't stuck it in enough.
  • [20190105] I still cannot get BCM943602CS on adaptor working...

2018

December Updates

  • [20181225] Happy holiday humans.
  • [20181222] I ordered ribbon cable for smartcard slot in China. Will need to design a PCB tho...
  • [20181207] My laptop is dead due to I was stupid enough to tear it down without unplug the battery.

November Updates

October Updates

  • [20181030] Uploaded BOOT4.0 which installed most KEXT into S/L/E. See "./KernalExtentions/".
  • [20181029] Uploaded INSTALL5.0 installations. iGPU weird with injected io-reg and fakeid on intelGFX.
  • [20181028] Clover have UEFI64Driver support FileVault2. Still, make sure you get everything else working first.
  • [20181027] DO NOT USE FILEVAULT!!! 100% DISK BREAK AFTER REBOOT GUARANTEED.
  • [20181027] Project Started. Initial INSTALL1.0 posted.