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MacBook Pro Razer Core compatibility in MacOS Sierra

Apparently someone on Reddit has managed to get the Razer core working on MacOS Sierra using a utility which "patches a kext in Sierra to enable TB3 devices" - solving Linus' complaint from WAN show (Dec 16th).

 

Has anyone else tried this?

 

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The core will work (as the post says) as long as you get around how Apple disabled support for first gen TB3 chips which the article talks about in the fourth edit :P 

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Personally I'm interested to see if there will be any backwards compatibility - Apple have a TB3 - TB2 bidirectional adapter, and I have a 2013 MBP...

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@Firearm2112 would be your guy to ask any questions about this kind of thing. He was using an eGPU before it was cool.

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1 hour ago, huilun02 said:

Fantastic!

Now to install Battlefield 1 on MacOS

Oh wait...

There are other uses for this than gaming...

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1 hour ago, Hunter259 said:

There are other uses for this than gaming...

non-sense. gaming is the official past time and benchmark tool for LTT residents!

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Excellent, so by patching official Apple kexts on the fly and editing DSDTs you can make Sierra work with something it should have worked with anyway. FTR both of these procedures would require the user disable SIP to carry out.

 

Its the equivalent of saying my wrecked Ferrari is still a great sports car, I only need to rebuild the engine and fix the hugely smashed bodywork first.

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2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Excellent, so by patching official Apple kexts on the fly and editing DSDTs you can make Sierra work with something it should have worked with anyway. FTR both of these procedures would require the user disable SIP to carry out.

 

Its the equivalent of saying my wrecked Ferrari is still a great sports car, I only need to rebuild the engine and fix the hugely smashed bodywork first.

True... it also bugs me how much more something like a RAM upgrade costs on a MacBook. I guess I just like MacOS too much on a portable machine!

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4 hours ago, Gunner23 said:

Personally I'm interested to see if there will be any backwards compatibility - Apple have a TB3 - TB2 bidirectional adapter, and I have a 2013 MBP...

In theory it should work

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1 minute ago, Gunner23 said:

True... it also bugs me how much more something like a RAM upgrade costs on a MacBook. I guess I just like MacOS too much on a portable machine!

I was running Sierra on my PC until I upgraded to a 1070. Personally I love macOS and prefer it to Windows, my hackintosh experience also allows me to know what steps this process required and while it's nothing too serious (compared to getting Mavericks running on an X58 using Chimera its a cakewalk) its not exactly simple either. Kext patching isn't to bad (it happens automatically on modern hackintoshes running Clover) but DSDT editing is a pretty serious thing to do, get it wrong and you could end up with a non booting operating system.

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2 minutes ago, Sauron said:

In theory it should work

Guess so - but I'm somewhat unwilling to fork out £400 for a Razer Core on a theory! Also, my current GPU doesn't have drivers for MacOS yet (Pascal)

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can't wait to see linus attempt of hackintosh on a laptop. Didn't tought about using unraid, might give it a try myself before the video pops-up

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1 minute ago, suicidalfranco said:

can't wait to see linus attempt of hackintosh on a laptop. Didn't tought about using unraid, might give it a try myself before the video pops-up

Unraid is just an unnecessary step and added complexity to a task which is infact incredibly easy these days.

 

Just choose a machine that has a Haswell/Skylake CPU, a Maxwell or Intel on board GPU and Realtek HD Audio and its barely any more difficult than it is on a real Mac.

 

Initial setup takes a fair while but once you've got your install drive made it has 2 more steps than it would on a real Mac, you have to install the bootloader manually and run an app (which I won't name here) to install kexts and kext patches and create your SM Bios config. Reboot and your done.

 

Oh wait, if you've gone with maxwell you must also install the Nvidia Web Driver package for GPU support and make a config.plist edit to tell clover to load macOS with the Nvidia driver.

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3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Unraid is just an unnecessary step and added complexity to a task which is infact incredibly easy these days.

 

Just choose a machine that has a Haswell/Skylake CPU, a Maxwell or Intel on board GPU and Realtek HD Audio and its barely any more difficult than it is on a real Mac.

 

Initial setup takes a fair while but once you've got your install drive made it has 2 more steps than it would on a real Mac, you have to install the bootloader manually and run an app (which I won't name here) to install kexts and kext patches and create your SM Bios config. Reboot and your done.

 

Oh wait, if you've gone with maxwell you must also install the Nvidia Web Driver package for GPU support and make a config.plist edit to tell clover to load macOS with the Nvidia driver.

but what if the laptop has a pascal gpu (planning to get the alienware m15x to replace my macbook pro)?

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5 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Fantastic!

Now to install Battlefield 1 on MacOS

Oh wait...

I hear Halo: Combat Evolved and Age of Empires II are available on Mac OS. Gonna get my Titan X ready fo dat.

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You can also build your own which is far cheaper, my cousin runs a GTX 980 on his MBP. 

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I demand to see you with a  2016 MBP with the Razer Core playing BF1 while you're driving through a car wash and dressed as Daffy Duck.

 

 

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10 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Unraid is just an unnecessary step and added complexity to a task which is infact incredibly easy these days.

 

Just choose a machine that has a Haswell/Skylake CPU, a Maxwell or Intel on board GPU and Realtek HD Audio and its barely any more difficult than it is on a real Mac.

 

Initial setup takes a fair while but once you've got your install drive made it has 2 more steps than it would on a real Mac, you have to install the bootloader manually and run an app (which I won't name here) to install kexts and kext patches and create your SM Bios config. Reboot and your done.

 

Oh wait, if you've gone with maxwell you must also install the Nvidia Web Driver package for GPU support and make a config.plist edit to tell clover to load macOS with the Nvidia driver.

I would have Hackintoshed my PC ages ago, if I didn't have a Pascal GPU and broken integrated graphics! Still hoping and wishing for Nvidia to release Pascal drivers...

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21 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

but what if the laptop has a pascal gpu (planning to get the alienware m15x to replace my macbook pro)?

Your out of luck I'm afraid. Nvidia seem reluctant to move macOS beyond driver v367.15 which only supports Maxwell, they've released the exact same driver 3 times now, once when it was new, once when 10.12.1 released and again last week when 10.12.2 released.

 

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All nvidia 10 series cards arent supportes by OSX yet, thats why he didnt got it working, all GTX cards up to the 700 series are natively supported on macOS, and the 900 series is supported via the nvidia Web drivers that they provide.

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18 hours ago, huilun02 said:

Fantastic!

Now to install Battlefield 1 on MacOS

Oh wait...

I'm pretty sure it's better utilized on something like Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro X

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nice but you shouldn't be gaming on a mac anyway

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Gotta love Power Users continual attempts at Power Usering the MacBook when Apple clearly doesn't want you to.

It's like you're all in denial that the MacBook (or any Apple device for that matter) is for anyone other than grandma's or coffee-sipping wannabe bloggers.

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3 minutes ago, PocketNerd said:

Gotta love Power Users continual attempts at Power Usering the MacBook when Apple clearly doesn't want you to.

It's like you're all in denial that the MacBook (or any Apple device for that matter) is for anyone other than grandma's or coffee-sipping wannabe bloggers.

No, not denial. Just not trapped in our own minds. I'm a power user who wouldn't touch a windows laptop as my main laptop and who has no issues using a 15" MBP as a power user. 

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1 hour ago, PocketNerd said:

Gotta love Power Users continual attempts at Power Usering the MacBook when Apple clearly doesn't want you to.

It's like you're all in denial that the MacBook (or any Apple device for that matter) is for anyone other than grandma's or coffee-sipping wannabe bloggers.

All a matter of preference! Personally, I don't really care whether apple wants me to "Power use" the MacBook or not! For the most part, mine's a half decent machine, and I love MacOS! I'm not in denial that Apple seems to be targeting the (quite niche) market of high price, low power - I gotta say, I really don't understand the new MBP, but I just still want to use it, and maximise its potential. 

 

There is also the small matter of battery life... but that's a whole other debate altogether!

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