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HP Elitebook 845 G7 Ryzen 7 Pro 4750u Hackintosh

Sonoma 14.7 on Ryzen 7 laptop

I’ve bought a used 2022 HP Elitebook 845 G7 Ryzen Pro 4750u so I can try to install macOS Sonoma on it for $165. Everything seems to work well except sleep and sound from Realtek ALC285 that doesn’t work with AppleALC.kext but the VoodooHDA.kext works quite well.  The graphics VRAM is stuck at 512MB from

Fix Coffee Lake Dim Backlight On Sonoma and Sequoia

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The Coffee Lake IGPU was broken since Sonoma and Sequoia. The symptom is booting up to a dimmed backlight. If put it to sleep then wake, it will come back with full brightness backlight or wait for about 3 minutes it will come back full brightness. Thanks to hackintosh community, I found the fix here.

HP EliteBook 840 G7 Hackintosh

​After a few weeks working on my HP EliteBook 840 G7. I decided to make a guide for anyone who has this laptop. It’s not a perfect MacBook Pro 16,2 but I really like it because it’s does last a long time with the battery in Ventura.    The specs: i5-10310u, 16GB, 500GB (changed to