How To Install Mac OS Mojave(10.14.6) On a Core i5 Surface Pro 3

Ivy
4 min readJul 24, 2021

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Intro

This is a guide to install Mac OS on the Core i5 Surface Pro 3 if you have experience with the process and just need the device-specific information you can find the files here https://github.com/spyguysgaming/Surface-Pro-3-Hackintosh

What Works

Type Cover (Picks up as mouse rather than trackpad so no gestures. Keyboard works fine though.)

Sleep/Wake

Clover from SSD

Graphics Acceleration

Checkra1n

Wifi via iPhone tethering

What Doesn't Work

Touchscreen

Onboard WiFI & Bluetooth

Battery Percent(There is a way just not that worked for me)

Graphics (They will sometimes glitch but not all too often.)

You will need

16GB Flash Drive

Mac(Can be another Hackintosh)

Mac OS Mojave Installer

Kexts And installers from here(Disclaimer: files may not be updated.)

Optional

External Wifi/Ethernet

External Bluetooth

Surface Dock(Ethernet apparently works OOTB)

Second USB for loading post-install resources

Prepare your Installer

Step 1

Use Disk Utility to format your USB to MacOS Extended Journaled and name it “USB”. Important: Make sure you have GPT selected or you will run into issues later. I know I selected the wrong one here but I fixed it afterward.

Disk utillity erase usb screen

Step 2

Open Terminal and run the following command.

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia — volume /Volumes/USB
Push Y then hit Enter

Once this finishes it should look something like this and you will have a USB installer capable of booting on a real mac. In the next part, we will install Clover.

Installing Clover

Step 1

Open the clover install package from the linked downloads page.

There will be a prompt hit Continue, then Continue again, and Continue a third time.

Step 2

You will be on this screen. Select ‘Install Mac OS Mojave’ as the destination.

Step 3

Make Sure you have a green arrow on your USB otherwise it will install somewhere else. Then hit Continue

Step 4

On this screen double check that you have your USB selected then hit install.

Step 5

After you hit install it will prompt you for your password, enter it then hit ‘Install Software’.

Step 6

If there were no problems you should now have clover installed. Hit Close as we are done with the installer.

Configuring Clover

Now that we have clover installed we need to configure it so it will boot correctly on the surface.

Step 1

Download and run Clover Configurator. You should be on this screen.

Step 2

Click ‘Mount EFI’

Step 3

Look under the ‘Efi Partitions’ section, and click the ‘Mount Partition’ button next to ‘Install Mac OS Mojave’. It will prompt for your password, this gives the app the permission to mount the EFI partition of your USB drive.

Step 4

You should now see an EFI drive in the finder or on your desktop. Open it and replace what's there with the folder from my Github.

Rest Coming Soon

The computer died that I was writing this on. I am working to get the files on another computer. I am publishing this as it should still help people that are stuck trying to get it to work.

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