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Acer Aspire A515-51G i5-8250U/8GB/MX130 - my daily driver

<center>is what I picked instead of 12" MacBook</center>

But why you may ask, well - here are some benchmarks:

benchmarks

Full spec:

Hardware used:

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⛔️ what is not working:

  1. Wi-Fi card (You will need to replace it to the oe that's compatibile - DW1560 will do.)
  2. OOB combojack (FIX AVAILABLE) Note: If you want to use combojack and only internal mic - use layout 3. If you want to use headset use layout 31. Layout 31 is yet not well supported and undefined behaviours occur (because combojack is designed for layout 71)

⛔️ WARNINGS:

Installation

This guide is ONLY for Mojave 10.14.* It might not work on Catalina or High Sierra.

There are many tutorials on how to install OSX on a PC class hardware. However using my Clover you can simply install OS 10.14 or newer on Acer Aspire A515. Make sure to connect USB keyboard and mouse as the I2C bus and PS2 is NOTsupported (yet) during instalation.

Post installation

First things first, if you are using an SSD make sure to enable the TRIM support:


$ sudo trimforce enable

After installing clover rebuild kext caches and kernel cache then

reboot and enjoy!

Credits:

Clover EFI Bootloader

Lilu.kext

VoodooPS2

VoodooI2C

Disable MX130