Surface Pro 3 Hackintosh With Touch/Pen Working

OpenCore based Hackintosh on Surface Pro 3

Full support for macOS version 10.15.X through 15.X and Beta support for macos 26. macOS Ventura and up supported and requires OpenCore Legacy Patcher to regain graphics support.

If you see anything that could be added or changed don't hesitate to let me know.

*** NOTICE ***

• It appears that the Hackintosh journey is coming to a close as macOS 26 will be the last Intel supporting release. Given the EOL of hackintoshing is quickly nearing, I am moving this repo to an LTS support model and will only update the repo if fixes are available until Apple stops releasing Intel compatible OS's. I will periodically update kexts and OpenCore as appropriate however there is no need to update with every OC or kext release if no new features or fixes impact the Surface Pro. You should expect that any remaining current issues will not be solved.

• macOS Ventura and up is now mostly supported. Graphics Acceleration is only supported using OpenCore legacy patcher. It is recommended that you download OCLP first and upgrade to Ventura from Monterey.

• Do not manually update kexts labeled as "custom"; instead wait for an update. Custom kexts have been modified to support the Surface Pro 3 and generic kexts WILL break support (e.g. TouchScreen, Surface Pen, & Keyboard support)

• Upon first installation you must go to Settings and disable "Force Touch" in the trackpad settings for the Surface Trackpad to function properly

• Due to quirks in the Surface Pro 3 firmware, dual booting with Windows is problematic.

• Secure boot: In order to boot with secure boot on a key must be registered otherwise secure boot must be turned off. Please see instructions in Chapter 9 to register the secure boot key and boot with secure boot turned on

• Touch works however you will need to tap the screen several times in a row until it registers (approx 10 times). Once registered it will work as expected until the next boot when you will have to do this again. Surface Pen works without this delay.

Surface Pro 3 Specifications:

Model:	i3	i5	i7
CPU	i3-4020Y Single Core 1.5 Ghz	i5-4300U Dual Core 1.9-2.9 Ghz	i7-4650U Dual Core 1.7-3.3 Ghz
Display	12" ClearType HD 2160x1440	same	same
GPU	HD 4200	HD 4400	HD 5000
RAM	4 GB	4/8 GB	8 GB
SSD	64/128 GB SATA	128/256 GB SATA	128/256/512 GB SATA
WiFi	Marvell Avastar b/g/n/ac	same	same
Batt	42 W/h	same	same
Ports	1x USB 3.0, 1x mDP, 1x 3.5 Audio Jack	same	same
	1x Type Cover Port, 1x Surface Dock Port	same	same

Supported Software:

• macOS 10.15 Catalina (End of Life)
• macOS 11 Big Sur (End of Life)
• macOS 12 Monterey (End of Life)
• macOS 13 Ventura (Req OCLP)
• macOS 14 Sonoma (Req OCLP)
• macOS 15 Sequoia (Req OCLP 2.02+)
• macOS 26 (Last macOS version to support Intel; End of Support)

Instruction Guides

Chapter 1) Quick Start Install

Chapter 2) BootCamp Install

Chapter 3) Quirks & Fixes

Chapter 4) Additional Drivers

Chapter 5) Booting Other OS's with OpenCore

Chapter 6) Other Operating Systems

Chapter 7) Other OS Quirks & Fixes

Chapter 8) Windows 11 Upgrade and/or Clean Install

Chapter 9) Secure Boot ON with OpenCore using Grub

Chapter 10) Haswell Legacy Support (macOS Ventura only)

What works

• macOS 10.15.X through 15.X Beta support for 26.x (Ventura and newer req's special modifications)
• Graphics Acceleration
• Native Brightness Adjustments
• Native Audio Adjustments
• Fan
• USB
• Battery (Battery status & management works in all OS's)
• AC Power Detection
• TypeCover Trackpad: w/gestures (models 17xx and higher)
• TypeCover Keyboard (models 17xx and higher)
• TypeCover Hotplug (models 17xx and higher)
• Audio / Headphones / Microphone
• WiFi: USB nano cards supported with the Realtek chipset
• iServices: Requires custom SMBIOS settings in OpenCore config.plist file. See the OpenCore Dortania Post-Install guide.
• USB Installer (no wifi support)
• SDcard
• Secure Boot: ON (see Chapter 9)
• Dual Boot: (see Chapter 5)
• Windows Boot From OpenCore Supported
• TouchScreen (Works in macOS, Recovery, Installer)
• Surface Pen
• Recovery (re-installation requires compatible USB ethernet or phone tethering. I do not have a list of compatible cards and your mileage may vary here)
• FileVault
• Power Management
• mDP
• Dock MDP/HDMI
• Dock USB
• Dock Ethernet
• Deep Sleep (macOS style Hibernation; See Quirks & Fixes for required power setting changes)

Partially Working/In-Progress (Working ONLY After Warm Boot From Windows/Linux)

• Power Button (Sleep/Wake)
• Volume Down
• Volume Up
• Windows Button (Disabled Pending Assigning A Useful Task For The Button)

Current Issues Being Worked On

• TypeCover Sleep/Wake Trigger

Won't Ever Work

• WiFi: (Marvell Avastar - Unsupported)
• Accelerometer: (Unsupported)
• Bluetooth: (Marvell Avastar - Unsupported)
• DRM: (Unsupported on iGPU)

Credits

Special thanks to the massive Hackintosh community for all your work that makes these guides and Surface Pro Hackintosh possible. Additional thanks goes to @acidanthera and @Xiashangning for their tireless work on the software & kexts that make hackintoshing possible. Custom VoodooI2C.kext utilizes code with permission from Xiashangning's BigSurface kext to enable Surface Keyboard support.