The Best MacBook is not made by Apple. ThinkPad with macOS Review
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- After some issues with my MacBook Pro, I sold it to get this. A ThinkPad T480s, which turned out to be a better MacBook than the one Apple made.
Links in video: Cantabria Vlog Day 5 • The Last Day - Cantabr...
Vlogs: @arnaudots
Streams sometimes: www.kick.com/d...
![Best Graphics Settings in Once Human For ZERO Input Lag and Smoother Gameplay [UPDATED]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XjMwh0DLhVg/mqdefault.jpg)
Cleaning it too hard it broke is insane, sleeper build
This kid is a movie star.
The kid stays.
Trust me when i say this this youtuber is gonna be a big youtber with more than 100k subs trust me
My bro on top
We don't need you to tell us the obvious.
Yea
Yea
Yeah, definetly not a comment from a friend or 2nd account 😂
i got the same model and its lasted me for 5 years of consistent usage, and im currently using it for uni 😭😭 i love this thing
T480s. Love it. Win 10. 24 G ram. 16 is plenty. Normally, I dual boot but I like this one as is. It’s an office machine but it’s a great one. I’ll prob buy a T480 as well to tinker with.
T480: you have my sub, good luck on ur journey! great concept for video
thanks! You're the 420th sub, do you mind if I put you in a video?
@@ArnauDisrepair go for it!
Can you share the Efi for t480s???
Nice video, man! If you’re looking for an affordable Mac that is more expandable, the Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 is the ideal choice. macOS 10.14 Mojave is the latest officially supported OS on those machines. It functions fine. It does support Open Core Legacy Patcher for running newer OSs.
Also, nice outro song (9:15) from Sonic R! That soundtrack is gold!
Could you please share your EFI folder please
I tried mac os on thinkpad for 3 days and went back to windows...it was great and responsive but heck the wifi kept disconnecting after a few minutes even with fixes, it slowed the speed (max 7mb 🤣) I could not live with that slow internet. gaming was better than windows but it just the wifi that threw me off so I don't know if I'll ever install mac os again, maybe after I got a new ssd so I can dual boot. I love the interface so much and much easier to manage my iphone.
UPDATE: I’m back on mac os using big sur and my wifi is working good now lol bye bye windows
Bro, remember us all when you get famous one day. And I mean big time famous! 🥰
You will be!
Blessed be. Take care and do what you do!
So do you recommend that specific thinkpad t480s model for main pc?. Insane setup brooo 👏🏻
I want to do this with t480 for long time 😄
The way I did it is to look up EFI folders for my computer in GitHub or TH-cam, fix and update whatever is broken and eventually I got an EFI that worked.
if you need help tell me i done it on two devices t480 and t450
Great video. This feels different from other tech channels. It feels more emotional and much more honest.
FYI, I've been having T420s for 12 years. Replaced HDD with SSD, and upgraded RAM, Still OK
Can you share your hackintosh EFI of this computer? So that I can buy the same one
What about doing a step by step tutorial on how to transform a thinkpad into a mac?
Did trackpoint of ThinkPad keyboard work on hackintosh ?
Yes, even with scrolling
Few questions.
I own an Intel Thinkpad Hackintosh, everything it’s fine but Apple TV+ app.
In your case with AMD laptop, what doesn’t work?
Apple TV DRM? Sleep? Audio from headphones? Audio from USB soundcard? Virtual Machine From parallels? Just asking to know if I can build an AMD Hackin Laptop.
This is not an AMD laptop, however I do use an AMD desktop hackintosh.
I'm not sure DRM works on Apple apps, but it should work through Chrome or Firefox. Maybe it works because I have a Radeon GPU but idk. Check if there is an Apple TV web app.
Sleep is disabled as it usually crashes the system. I just tell it to turn off the monitor.
Headphone jack has never been set up because it's always a pain point for hackintoshes so I just didn't bother.
I use audio from either my HDMI monitor or a USB sound card (which is just a cheap USB microphone with a monitoring jack)
VMs do not work at all as they all use Apple's virtualization which doesn't work under Ryzen CPUs. However, SheepShaver works (classic Mac OS emulator).
Also some apps that require an Intel specific instruction don't work. Some Adobe apps have this, but they can be easily patched.
Discord also has this problem but you can use the web app which is the same.
AMD laptop hackintoshes are still a bit weird so I don't encourage them, but desktops are fine. Honestly, all of this doesn't bother me.
Do you use the three finger drag feature on Mac OS? I tried it on my T480 and the cursor sometimes jumped randomly from time to time.
Nah, I don't like it. I just put my thumb in the left corner and drag with my index finger
Finally someone who loves macOS but hates the Macbook ✨
While I don't personally find that this is better that having an actual Mac, I can fully see how a lot of people would love it. Great job with the tinkering and great video overall. Checked your sub count and cannot believe you have less than 250 subs! Kudos to you and to your way of using your own Mac, love it. Keep up the good work.
In some places it's better, in some places it's worse. Same with a real Mac! You just have to find what you value more.
Thanks for the nice words! A couple of days ago I only had 180 subs 😅
It has problems but it works… and then Bluetooth worked like 2 days. Okay. I think it’s chipper to buy MacBook air from 2017 with 2 usb a ports and it would be even chipper.
I have spent countless hours meddling with things to make them finally work until they don't WHEN YOU REALLY NEED THEM. When you grow up, you realize, 80% of your results come from only 20% of your things, since you don't really have too much time. When you use only 20% of things, reliability becomes your prime concern. This is where apple products shine. Yes, they might be delicate to handle but as long as you take enough care, they all work seamlessly. At the end of the day, you must realize, these are just tools for your craft. Apple products are reliable tools that take out the reliability factor out of the equation and let you concentrate on your craft.
Love the video, you nailed it! I just bought a T480 and I'm definitely going to transform it into an mac
Cool video. How do you find the performance? I am running Ubuntu on my T480 because Windows is just too slow on it. Do you find MacOS fast on your Thinkpad?
It's not as fast as on Windows/Linux but it's still good enough. General use is pretty good, even with a VM running. I'm even able to edit 1080p video in Final Cut pretty well.
@@ArnauDisrepair nice one. thanks for the reply.
thinkpad FTW
When you live a delusion and want everyone else to know your reality
correct
th-cam.com/video/j6Y5S5TGs_I/w-d-xo.html
Have to try this
can u share your efi build?
How gratifying it is to finally find an intelligent person
Arnau, you are under rated. You should have a couple of million subscribers. Let's make that happen.
Great channel!
why did you pay 600€ for an INTEL macbook?? I got my m1 in 2022 for less
I bought it in january so the M2s were still not out. 600€ was the maximum I had in my pocket and that was the newest I got
Be very vareful with the T480 X1 Carbon 6th and 7th gen. The Thunderbolt implementation is iffy and kills HDMI,only charges 15W and no USBC 3 (no video, no thunderbolt that is) due to one of the BIOS chips get corrupted due to Intel ME
Is their a way to fix it or to make it not happen?
@darkkingmina4487 There was a BIOS update issued a couple of years ago to prevent this from happening
@@ArnauDisrepair does Windows apply it from windows updates or no cuz I bought that laptop cuz of your vid a few days ago and I love it I don't want to lose it cuz some Intel shi
@darkkingmina4487 You have to do it from Lenovo's website, they have an installer for it
@@ArnauDisrepair thanks can you send a link love your vids also
Kid... awesome video.. I have an W540 running Linux Mint. Love it...
Almost all the negative points you made about the mac are true for the old intel powered macs. Silicon Macs is a much different beast.
Just as a side think you can’t use MacOS for ever on the laptop one day Apple is gonna drop the support for intel so you can’t use it anymore
Just because Apple doesn't support Intel doesn't mean that older computers will stop working. You'll still be able to use Chrome for an added 7 years, and most programs will have some older version you'll be able to use. PowerPC Macs are still useful if you do stuff like writing.
Love your channel bro. Big hug from Portugal. Keep up the good work.
buying worst mac doesn't mean MacOS is bad tho, try at least M1 and let's see what you gonna do just to turn the fan on!
I'm not saying macOS is bad, in fact, it's my OS of choice. I just find MacBooks annoying to deal with. The new ones have amazing performance and efficiency, yes, but as just a computer, they're not very good imo. I value practicality over performance, and even if I'd like my laptop to be fast, I prefer not having to worry about dongles and special cables. Also, used ThinkPads are cheap AF. With the money I saved going with a used ThinkPad, I could get an M1 Mac Mini.
@@ArnauDisrepairwhy would you buy an Intel one in 2022?
@@hazyproduct1692 because i'm cheap and that was the newest thing I could buy for a good price
Type c hubs exist...... I literally only use one cable to charge and use peripherals on my M1Pro...... @@ArnauDisrepair
I am currently using the same device with macos sonoma and it is perfect thunderbolt works and hdmi and usb c and camera and everything expect the fingerprint and some connunity features which i dont care about and i can just change the wifi card for11 bucks and have airdrop and handoff and all of that but i wont get it cuz yea why would i dont even have an iphone
i have one with 16g x1 4th gen.
i installed ventura everything works
even the hdmi
display port doesnt work but no need for this.
te funciona el wifi???
@@mausan yes everything
Awesome video. Thank you.
El hecho de que eres español de España me parece increíble. Pensé que era el único español joven con Hackintosh 🎉😆
Molt bé, Arnau!
Well put, great video!
Buen video! me encanta el soporte que le tienes al thinkpad. Mario Kart wii el mejor juego.
Share the EFI for this model! Pleaseeeee!
solo googlea efi Lenovo t480s y te va a aparecer. Pero claro, los parches acpi necesitas tomarlos de dortania. y despues parchar tu dsdt para que funcione al 100 tu hackintosh.
U can usually getting it by searching the model of the computer +efi
KUDOS for using a Pebble Time in 2023
It's very nice. Best smartwatch imho. I will never get rid of it. I'm currently using an iPod Nano 6g though. Looking forward to iOS having sideloading so I can use the Pebble with an iPhone.
I value a nice keyboard and a nice touchpad on a laptop more than everything else. Thinkpads have the best keyboards in my opinion and mac's touchpads have no parallel. Now what do I do ? :/
In my honest opinion, the ThinkPad trackpad is fine. Not as good as the MacBook, but it's not bad at all. Even on the plastic one (you can replace it with a glass trackpad) it's fine. I do find that it's better on macOS than on Windows/Linux. I don't really miss the Mac trackpad as this is good enough for me, and I've seen much worse. The TrackPoint buttons cut in the way of the trackpad making it smaller, but whatever.
also display...
how about battery life bro
It's fine, not the best. Maybe like 3h worst case. Battery is better on Windows/Linux
I want to install mac os on my thinkpad too but im just wondering if i can still use the cellular feature without any issues? bec my laptop has a sim card slot and the wwan lte module installed which i currently using!pls let me know and thanks!
you can't bc apple never made a laptop with cellular network
Just share the internet from your phone as a wifi bro
ThinkPad T480 does the same but bigger memory like 32GB 😂
yeah i understand you. i hate windows, so i went to mac. now i hate mac, so i want neither. I'm leaning towards getting a t480 because i can do whatever the fuck i want to do, and its CHEAP as hell to upgrade and buy, or not. And worse comes to worse, i may just learn linux because both windows and mac honestly suck.
use arch
@@dev1ex180 whats arch
Nice video i thought you had like more than 100k subs also should i hackintosh my t470 it has i5 7300u 8gb ram 256gb m2 nvme
"nothing works, everything disconnecting all the time, but it's better mac than mac" :) someone's in a denial...
Let the kid be a hater
I just run Linux on it, much better desktop experience imo.
The thumbnail & title is misleading. You actually love MacOs . Based on the price tag for macbook & few limitations & comparison to thinkpad price tag what it offers , thinkpad is more value for money you actually mean.
yeah, i love macOS. I haven't said otherwise in this video.
@@ArnauDisrepair 👍
U deserve more subscribers
I use macOS btw
Make more videos converting to macOS 👍👍👍👍👍
macOS isn't less closed down than Windows.. same crap. Taking Crapple's more successful walled garden into account its even worse.
I'd rather be using Windows instead of an Apple operating system, but I'm sick and tired of Windows becoming incredibly buggy, slow, filled with ads, microsoft account integrations... Also, every Windows release from 8 has had Microsoft try to be "the next big thing" and fail at it. First it was tablets, then multi-device convergence, and now it's AI. I like that macOS just improves itself as a computer OS and doesn't try to reinvent the wheel every time it's personality changes.
@@ArnauDisrepair That's why Linux is the only remaining OS. It's not good. But at least it is an OS and no glorified App-Store with integrated Spyware and Ads. The downdumbing of desktop OSses is the worst thing that happened over last 15 years or so .. I want control over the hardware I own. Actually I think modern OSses are so terrible, that the vendors producing them should pay customers for using this crap.
I've used Linux for longer than macOS. I WISH it was a legitimate good option, but there are too many issues with it.
I edited a video in this channel on Linux, and I hated it. It's just not a viable option for most people who just want a reliable computer. Yes, I like that I have full control and that I can modify whatever I want. But at the end of the day, I've got homework to do, and I've got videos to make. I don't want to waste more time figuring out how to reencode some codec with an ffmpeg script I had to mock up to make it work with a specific version of DaVinci Resolve that I found that just works. And I don't want to run into a new program that I need for school/work that doesn't work with Linux, and have to spend 30 minutes extra installing a VM and passing through whatever USB device I have to it.
I'm soon getting an upgrade on my desktop PC to use it as a Hackintosh. Maybe I'll install Linux on the ThinkPad, but there is no way it's becoming my main OS again.
Maybe in 3 years, once all companies decide to finally support Linux.
All the Linux snobbery completely ignores that there is real people with real work to do, and for a lot of occasions, Linux ends up working for them like a Chromebook. "Your browser already does everything you want to do, so there is no need to touch the terminal!"
I swear, I'll make a video about switching to ChromeOS and compare it to Linux in terms of usability.
I know it's not Linux's fault, but it is what it is. I do really like the OS, but I can't do anything in it.
macOS has a good terminal (with the shells that linux has), it runs propietary apps, and you can get your cool tiling window manager rices with yabai.
If Linux works well for you, great. It doesn't for me.
The best laptop ever has always been Lenovo.
soon apple will leave the support for x86 and all these machines will be useless.
is he a apple fanboy or a windows fanboy?
neither, i hate both
@@ArnauDisrepair windows is better
@@sajtcraft3473mac>>>> shitindows
@@sajtcraft3473 windows es una basura respecto a su administracion de energia en laptops.
Any MacBook With Apple Silicon will be still much better than this thinkpad.
Not everything is about performance
@@ArnauDisrepair yes, thats correct. What is not is the title of the video saying that "the best MacBook is not made by Apple". Its simply not true. MacBook Pro destroys this thinkpad in every possible way. Period.
@@tomaszargentynczyk8635 I admit the title is not entirely true for some, but you also can't say that a MacBook Pro "destroys this thinkpad in every possible way". If you care about performance or battery, then sure the MacBook is better. In any other aspect, the ThinkPad is better.
I had a MacBook Pro 2020, exact design as the current 13" model, without the performance and battery. It sucked. I now have basically the same laptop but with every other aspect being best in class (except display, admittedly).
@@tomaszargentynczyk8635 A huge chunk of my usage (and a lot of other people's) doesn't even require a fast computer. If all that's good in a current MacBook is that it's fast, then the MacBook is completely irrelevant to me.
@@ArnauDisrepair really? Only performance on battery is better, nothing else? You know thats simply BS. Any Apple Silicon MacBook is better in majority of things: performance overall, battery life, touchpad, screen, support and especially macOS compatibility.
You did a clickbait in video title and it should be changed, in my opinion.
Déjate de fideos gordos y dinos cómo instalar Mac OS en un Lenovo Thinkpad e15 gen 4
dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/
cuz he talks shit about apple but also microsoft
both got shit to be talked about
You should have bought M1 MacBook Air
What the *uck is wrong with you guys ? This kid is saving a lot of money, you moron,which at his age is probably important. Wake up, @$$hole, and try to use your single neuron brain to read the context!
wat
This is not worth the trouble. Don't do this unless you know what you're doing to your system. Also not all features will be fully supported such as iMessage unless you tinker with the installation.
Actually, iMessage was the easiest thing to get working for this. AirDrop is the only thing that isn't working for me *yet*.
Hackintoshing on laptops is the easiest way to do it because there is already people who published their EFI configuration, and you just need to tweak it a bit to make it work.
Also, "Don't do this unless you know what you're doing to your system" this is exactly why you should at least try it out once. It makes for a (sometimes frustrating) learning experience with a satisfying result. I get that not everyone likes doing this, but if you like messing with your computer, it's something worth trying.
And if you're a Mac user, knowing how to do this is useful if your real Mac ever dies, so you can use a 50$ laptop as an emergency MacBook.
@@ArnauDisrepair Not everyone has the time to keep “tweaking a bit” every time they want to update the system. Second off, hackintoshing will soon be dead as Apple has started to transition away from intel chips in favor for their arm processors. I don’t get why you’d waste time just for “extra ports” when you could just get a type C hub with all of the ports you’d ever need. Second, even the base model arm based 14 inch MacBook Pro is plenty powerful.
- I've already said that this is only viable for tinkerers. If all you want is a Mac, just buy a Mac. If you don't like it, then don't buy it. If you want macOS but don't want a Mac, either give up, or try Hackintoshing. If you can't/don't to do that, then just don't.
- I know about the x86 to ARM transition. I've talked about it in the video. Regardless of if macOS supports your computer or not, it doesn't magically stop working. It will still take years for app developers to stop supporting the last macOS version, and even then, you'll still be able to use common day-to-day apps like Chrome or Spotify. Or just switch to another OS, like you can do on an Intel Mac.
- Ports. If you want to use Bluetooth for everything, store everything in the cloud and use AirDrop, then go for it. I dislike using "smart" stuff like that, because it always stops working. I use several hard drives (I have A LOT of storage. iCloud can't handle all of it and it's also expensive) and I use a wired keyboard, wired mouse, wired headphones and a wired monitor. They don't have batteries, they don't have latency, they work with every device I have and they don't have connection issues (I own a Magic Mouse and it has given me problems, also I don't have Wi-Fi right now) . I also plug my computer to my TV (which doesn't support AirPlay) and I use SD cards for my smartphone and my 3DS. I NEED ports. Thunderbolt ports might be super fast, but they don't connect with anything without a dongle. "Just get a dongle" I already have. I actually use a USB hub in my desk for extra ports. It's about not needing to reach for it. I use my laptop in a lot of places, some of which I don't typically use a dongle (bed, couch, my lap, etc) but sometimes I do need to plug something in. I can't be dragging around a dongle everywhere I go just in case I need it, so it's a major inconvenience when I forget to pack it.
- Not everything is about performance. People today still buy 10-12 year old "obsolete" laptops because they're still useful for what they do. If you're a writer, you can still use an 80's original Macintosh and a matching printer. My laptop that is "not as good as a base model MacBook Pro" is still plenty fast for what I do. I'm able to use a 3DS emulator while streaming, and I can edit 4K footage. Believe me, I'm good. Most people that buy MacBooks don't even need the performance of the newer ones.
@@ArnauDisrepair : don't waste time with the troll. For sure he's a US citizen, obese, drinks Coke, eats $hitty pre-processed food and he's hoping to vote for Trump at next election. Let him roll in his mud, as convinced as he is to live in the best country possible ... poor thing !
imessage works without tweak...if it needs a tweak, it won't take 30 minutes to do it.