This was my first question. This laptop looks like a really strange bird from the hardware point of view. It runs OSX (Tahoe), but uses an iPhone/iPad CPU (not an M1 or M2 CPUs that Asahi runs on today).
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btsax@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
How soon until Asahi will run on it
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
you can run “normal” (non Asahi) Linux on those, since they have a normal cpu
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Years. Asahi fully relies on reverse engineering by the community and those community members tend to get hired by the competition. Get a device where the platform designer supports Linux development upstream if your priority is Linux.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Could you give examples? My hope is to get a laptop at commodity mass produced prices, but where everything works flawlessly with Linux.
I’ve heard that old thinkpads are the way to go, but I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.)
As long as it’s without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright.