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Installing macOS Catalina on PC


Installing macOS Catalina on PC is made easy with Hackintosh Catalina Installer. This is a special release, it focuses on vanilla. It has no third-party software. You are free to customize your mac os experience your way.

For detailed Installation Guide and Instruction read: Install Hackintosh Catalina on PC/Laptop

If you do not read the guide there is a possibility of Installation failure because of Expiration of Apple certificates. Reading the guide is very important.

Hackintosh Catalina Requirements.

  • Computer Desktop/Laptop with Intel processor and supported graphics card or chipset.
  • Motherboard with UEFI supported BIOS.
  • Catalina requires a processor with the SSE4.2 instruction.
  • Catalina requires a metal-compatible graphics card.
  • Separate SSD or separate hard-disk with at least 20GB free-space, an SSD is recommended.

 

Features & Changes:

  • Hackintosh Catalina Installer is a vanilla Installer.
  • Hackintosh Catalina Installer does not have any third-party applications or software.
  • Only supports UEFI compatible Desktop/Laptops.
  • Clover UEFI is used as default macOS bootloader.
  • Added Support for Apple File System (APFS).
  • Extensions are installed to /Library/Extensions instead of /System/Library/Extensions as a way to preserve vanilla methods, which also enables modifications of extensions without disabling System Integrity Protection in macOS.
  • Cleaned up Catalina Installer Customize Section, removed old & unnecessary kexts, tools.
  • Default desktop background image is left untouched.
  • Safari Bookmarks are left untouched.
  • No Desktop icons are created.
  • Added support for Installing Lilu kext.
  • Lilu Plugins are included as an option.
  • Added support for Installing FakePCIID kext.
  • FakePCIID Plugins are included as an option.
  • USB XHCI Patches are applied but may need patch upgrade upon OS upgrade.
  • AppleALC Audio Kext is updated..
  • Partial Intel Coffe-lake Graphics Support.
  • Voodoo TrackPad/PS2 Kexts were updated to the latest version.
  • ACPIBatteryManager.kext has been updated to the latest version.
  • Full USB 2.0 and 3.0 support on 7/8/9 Series motherboards.
  • Whatevergreen kext is added as an option.

 

Deprecated Features:

  • It is not possible to Install Hackintosh Catalina Installer without converting to APFS.
  • It is not possible to Install Hackintosh Catalina Installer on Master Boot Record Partition Schemes. It may fail.
  • Removed Post-Installation Optimizations, they are not necessary now.
  • Removed ATA/PATA Support, These are completely unnecessary in modern computers with UEFI BIOS.
  • VoodooTSCSync kext has been removed from Installer.
  • AptioMemoryFix.efi is removed OsxAptioFix3Drv.efi is used as replacement.

 

Notes:

  • Hackintosh Catalina Installer can be installed with a Non-Metal-Compatible graphics card, but a Metal-Compatible graphics card is required for full graphics acceleration.
  • Do not try to use this installer on a real mac.
  • Hackintosh Catalina Installer does not support Legacy BIOS.
  • Third-party Apps are no longer available.

 

Porting DMG to USB: In Mac use Restore Catalina Package to Port DMG Image into Pen Drive.

In Windows use TransMac software to write DMG Image into Pen Drive.


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