Clevo-NB50TK1-Hackintosh-OC (discontinued)

This repo includes the OpenCore EFI with all the fixes for NB50TK1 on Big Sur.

This repo can also be used for macOS Catalina.

Tested on:

Model	NB50TK1
CPU	Intel Core i3-8100
iGPU	Intel UHD Graphics 630
dGPU	NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti (disabled)
RAM	16 GB DDR4
SSD	128 GB M.2 (SATA)
WiFi	Intel® Dualband-Wireless-AC 3168
Software	macOS 10.15.7 Catalina

What works?

• Battery
• TrackPad
• Brightness control
• Function keys
• Sleep
• Keyboard backlight control incl. RGB
• Sound (incl. audio jack)
• WiFi
• Bluetooth
• Full iGPU acceleration (UHD 630)
• HDMI (partially)

How to get function keys and KBD backlight control working

Download ClevoService, install com.fjhk.ClevoService.agent.plist into /Library/LaunchAgents/ and inject ClevoService.kext into /Library/Extensions/

What doesn't work?

• dGPU: Since Pascal GPUs have no support since Mojave, it's disabled. By disabling and setting the card into D3 in ACPI, the lowest power state a device can support, the GPU will barely consume any power, so battery life should be improved as a result.
• Mini DisplayPort as it's directly conntected to the dGPU
• HDMI Hotplug: This is an issue, we are currently looking into. To get around this, HDMI has to be plugged in during bootup.
• Trackpad has no Magic TrackPad 2 emulation

How to install

Download this repo and place the EFI folder into your EFI Partition... That's it.

How to Install macOS Big Sur

There are two ways you can make a USB installer:

1. Have a working install of macOS, download the Installer from the App Store, then make a bootable Installer with createinstallmedia by using this command in Terminal sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume

2. If you are using Windows, use macrecovery.py from the offical OpenCore release package.

After you made a bootable Installer, copy the EFI folder to the EFI partition and install as usual. After the installation, mount the EFI of the installed OS and copy the EFI folder to its partition.

Credits

Thanks to:

• TECHNIKVERBOT and SkyrilHD (for making an EFI that is working very well)
• acidanthera (for making OpenCore)
• dortania (helping with their troubleshooting guide)
• and to our tester