PM981

You do not notice SSD speed differences in daily use. The Samsung 990Pro is the benchmark in PCIe4.0 SSDs - much faster on paper and in benchmarks than the OEM PM 981. I have retrofitted quite a few of those in xx80-generation Thinkpads and the faster speeds compared to the old Samsung PM981 these s

Processor: Intel: 10th gen or older (anything newer is not supported) AMD: Any Ryzen CPU with integrated graphics up to 7000 series Graphics: 90% of laptops use integrated graphics so as long as it is 10th gen Intel or older or AMD you are fine. But if it is a laptop with a dedicated graphics chip a

If you’re kernel panicking when you start the download it’s likely a compatibility problem with your SSD. Since it’s a Samsung 980 it’s probably incompatible, Samsung NVMes are not supported. Some might work but others like the PM981 are absolutely not supported and despite what a few people who hav

tried nvme=-1, it doesn t work, the bootloader gets stuck(but doesn t throw a kernel panic though), the bios sadly doesn t support disabling pci e lanes, but i will look into the ssdt files. the thing is one of my nvmes is a Samsung pm981 which seems to be notorious for this kind of kernel panic, wi

It runs very smoothly. And I feel your struggle with the NVMe – my T480s came shipped with an incompatible 512G Samsung PM981 NVMe, ordered a 512G WD SN730 a week ago but still didn't arrive so I ended up saying "fuck it" and buying a 1T Kingston NV3 from a local store and this one works like a char

I’ve hackintoshed this exact same setup so it’ll work fine. Only thing you’ll need to change is the Samsung SSD for a WD Black because I’m guessing it’s a PM981 (very common) which isn’t compatible at all. Just a warning, the kext for graphics doesn’t work with chromium acceleration so Google chrome

You’ll need: External SSD / enclosure Steps: Install Windows to the external SSD Boot into Windows Install VMWare Install macOS via DMG to the NVMe SSD through VM Build an Opencore EFI on a USB stick Boot the Samsung SSD from the USB stick EFI Deal with endless glitching and unreliable boot because

I had a similar issue when I installed OpenCore on the Thinkpad T480 but the only way was to use a different SSD. Edit: the SSD that refused to work was Samsung MZ-VLB2560 (PM981)

The difference between Linux and Hackintosh is that Linux is designed to support just about any hardware (at kernel level) while macOS doesn’t. It isn’t a fair comparison and unfortunately unless Apple decides to open source it (ha.ha.ha) it is still very much a case of RTFM. It hasn’t become easier

What model SSD do you have? This is almost definitely an incompatible SSD, if you’re lucky it can be patched with NVMeFix or one of the Sata patching kexts but if it’s something like a Samsung PM981 you’re not gonna get it to work without buying a new SSD.