So... it's my first ever laptop in my life, and it was definitely used from what I see, meanwhile I was - and still am - a regular desktop user and if it comes to PC, I know what parts I'm putting in my PC case... doesn't matter. Anyway, the specs are as below:
BIOS version - 1.34.0 (updated it as soon as possible, before it was 1.6xx something, I don't remember)
Processor: Intel Core i5 8350u
8 GB RAM (one stick only which is rather problematic, because from what I see it's a stick from... some Lenovo, called "Lenovo FRU 01AG710")
NVME disk 256 GB from Samsung, called "MZ-VLB2560" (or "S41GNX0M117758", and no, I can't use a regular SSD because I didn't get any adapter with this laptop)
GPU - Intel UHD Graphics 620
Audio Controller - Realtek ALC3246
Wi-FI Device - Intel Wireless... and that's all the BIOS says, but I guess it's this "thing", called "8265NGW".
or way better specs after I used Linux live cd installation to check exactly:
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 5490 v: N/A serial: EDITED
Chassis: type: 10 serial: EDITED
Mobo: Dell model: ODH2HV v: AGO serial: /EDITED/
part-nu: 0816 UEFI: Dell v: 1.34.0 date: 01/29/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BATO charge: 39.8 Wh (95.9%) condition: 41.5/68.0 Wh (61.0%)
volts: 8.1 min: 7.6 model: BYD DELL KCM8289 serial: 9780 status: discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-8350U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: Ll: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 426 high: 609 min/max: 400/360 cores: 1: 609 2: 400
3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 bogomips: 30409
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917
Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris gpu: 915
display-I0: :0 note: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr>
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0810 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 158
diag: 354mm (13.9")
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71
API: ALSA v: k6.8.8-archl-1 status: kernel-api
Server-1: Pipeire v: 1.0.5 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pu-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet 1219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15d7
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: c8:f7:50:2a:7c:0d
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00. chip-ID: 8086:24fd
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: d8:f2:ca:dc:ff:oa
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 5.19 GiB (2.2%)
10-1: /dev/nvmednl vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB25GHAHQ-000L7
size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: EDITED
temp: 32.9 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 233.18 GiB used: 5.12 GiB (2.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot size: 511 MiB used: 66.8 MiB (13.1%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
So far I managed to:
download a lot of random EFIs, even from this website, then mount them, and... even if one worked, it worked only up to a certain point where it was basically hanging the laptop at 77.5%
download some sort of a configurator (opencore efi maker afair) and used it within VMWare / Ubuntu in order to create a config, but it was also fruitless and couldn't bring it any further
In the end, I managed to create this EFI configuration, which makes the laptop stuck at the Apple logo and does nothing at all, no matter how long you'd be waiting. I also added possibly all the necessary (and not necessary) "Tools" (which, by a miracle, work).
I'm not sure what to do, I'm guessing there's still something wrong or unsupported so... I need advices. Also I don't even know what kind of MacOS I am supposed to install at all, so I downloaded them all and right now I am juggling Ventura, Big Sur and even Sonomo installations.
