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Whitieiii
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10.10 on x220

#1 Post by Whitieiii » Mon Mar 06, 2017 7:22 pm

does anybody have Osx 10.10 Yosemite on the x220? would love to install it on the x220 when I get an x230 but what is all needed? how is it? I got 4 macs so getting hold of a mac to make an install usb is easy and would like all basic functions to work like boot, touchpad/trackpoint, keyboard, wifi and sound but other than that I would like iMessage and facetime to work also.... suggestions?
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Re: 10.10 on x220

#2 Post by Fusion » Sat Jun 17, 2017 2:49 pm

I recently installed latest Sierra (10.12.5) on my X220.
Everything works perfectly. I even got the 3G modem to work.
The only investment (and good upgrade) was an AC wifi / BT4.0 mini PCIE card, because the original wifi and bluetooth are not supported.

Does not work:
- SD reader
- fingerprint scanner (I don't have one)
ThinkPad X220, i7-2640m, 16GB RAM, 120GB Kingston SSD, Intel HD3000, 12.5" WQHD, MacOS Sierra 10.13.2
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Re: 10.10 on x220

#3 Post by CASPER » Sat Jul 01, 2017 1:42 pm

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Re: 10.10 on x220

#4 Post by avdo » Fri Jul 14, 2017 6:41 am

Ran Yosemite for ages on my X220, no problems at all part from the card reader not working.

You'll need to flash the BIOS to a non-whitelisted one and install a 3rd part Wi-Fi card. From memory I fitted a Dell DW1515 card which is recognised as an AirPort Extreme within the system profiler.

Sleep / resume / FaceTime / iMessage ( with a bit of work) / Appstore etc all works. All in all it was a very stable, reliable platform.
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Re: 10.10 on x220

#5 Post by Fusion » Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:51 pm

The SD reader does not work under MacOS.
ThinkPad X220, i7-2640m, 16GB RAM, 120GB Kingston SSD, Intel HD3000, 12.5" WQHD, MacOS Sierra 10.13.2
ThinkPad W500 4063-VA4 CD2 Penryn 2,80GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 15.4" WUXGA, FireGL V5700, Win7u
ThinkPad R60 9461-DXG P-CD2 1,83GHz, 2GB 667MHz, 100GB HDD, ATI X1400@512MB, XP2 Pro

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