macOS Sonoma 14.8.9 — Dell G3 3579

OpenCore configuration for macOS Sonoma 14.8.9 (23J631) on the Dell G3 3579.

• OpenCore: 1.0.8 RELEASE (REL-108-2026-09-27)
• SMBIOS: MacBookPro15,2 (sample identity — replace with your own for Apple services)
• Status: boot-tested; this is the daily-driver configuration on the laptop

This EFI is macOS-only: on a multiboot machine, keep the existing Microsoft/ and vendor folders on your live EFI partition.

Documentation

• Installation
• Hardware support
• Configuration
• Fixes
• Known issues

Shared references: hardware · UHD 630 · kexts · BIOS · SMBIOS/safety

Beyond this machine: similar laptops · component reuse.

Feature summary

Working: Intel graphics acceleration, internal display, brightness (slider and keys), keyboard, touchpad, audio, microphone (with the input-volume quirk), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB, SD reader, webcam (including its activity LED), lid sleep/wake. Not working: NVIDIA GTX 1050 (disabled, unsupported), HDMI output (wired to the dGPU).

See hardware support for the full table.

Key boot arguments

-igfxblt -cdfon -btlfxallowanyaddr -ibtallowanyaddr

-igfxblt is the backlight registers fix that works on Sonoma and keeps the brightness keys functional. (Sequoia needs a different argument — do not copy this EFI to Sequoia.)

Before you boot

Generate your own SMBIOS identity and review the USB map and framebuffer. See SMBIOS and boot safety.