I’m honestly suprised the amount of effort and awesome stiff went into this. Like its functional and usable. I can’t say all hardware gets the same treatment.
I’ve watched some of the reverse engineering video’s of the graphics card. Very impressive.
If they can get the speakers to work and make suspend stable I will definitely give it a go on my M1 Pro.
Fedora Asahi is great on my M1 MBP. No speaker support, no good sleep support, battery life is much worse than OSX. But sweet sweet Linux on absolutely beautiful hardware.
All my old macbooks eventually get the Linux treatment. On modern hardware, however, the trade-offs of non-macOS just don’t make sense to me.
For now, Apple Silicon has made a fanboy out of me. I can’t overstate how big the jump in performance felt going from intel to my first M1 – not to mention the improved thermals. And obviously part of that is due to excellent alignment between hardware and software.
Still, once that first M1 hits retirement, I’ll no doubt experience that familiar pang of gratitude towards those engineers that put up with the trade-offs of running Linux on it today in order to get everything working.
I don’t see the point, very few people who buy this device for Apple will ever want to do this and we definitely shiuldn’t promote that piece of garbage, a single look at the iFixit score or a teardown video tells everything you have to know!
I don’t like Apple products either but the silicon Macbooks are the best laptops in the market, there just isn’t much competition. Every other company threw in the towel and make weaker laptops with half as much battery life due to x86 in the same pricepoint. Not to mention the screen and touchpad are usually worse.
I won’t deny that, they got the edge in terms of ARM CPUs but that doesn’t make those the best Laptops on the market, it’s literal EWaste and judging from Apples history that thing probably has a few desing flaws that will lead to breakage with no coverage from their site too. If you ask me you just got your priorities wrong if you buy one of those but I am one of those privacy freaks too so call me crazy if you want.
I mean, it’s ultimately a matter of opinion as to what makes a laptop the “best” on the market, but it seems like a serious stretch to call them ewaste. I’ve never personally owned an Apple product in my life, but they make some really solid hardware even if it’s sold at a premium.
The majore issues are, even more moves to restrict repairability on purpose than already common in the industry, refusal to pay for mistakes till lawsuites force them to do so and a history of majore desing flaws in countless products. Louis Rossman dose a good job at showing that, ewaste is a little harsh but I think it’s unfortunately very much appropriate in this case, just my opinion tho.
I don’t know about the EWaste part, I own a 2015 MacBook Pro and that thing is immortal! Still runs as smooth as the day I got it and it’s seen a lot of abuse.
Don’t know of many other brands that have this type of longevity. Out of the many laptops and PC’s that I owned, non lasted this long.
That’s a respectable age for a Laptop but nothing special, I used and even owned multiple older devices from various brands like Lenovo, Asus and HP and you just got lucky that you aquired the Pro rather than the Air with it’s “high quality” Butterfly keyboard that apple build into four or five generations with minimal tweaks that didn’t fix the breakage and only covered two of them!
I agree with you, Apple shouldn’t be supported in any way and I think of them as e-waste as well - their repairability is a joke. But before I knew anything about GNU/Linux I bought a Microsoft Surface Book 2. A friend introduced me to Linux and the project linux-surface convinced me to get rid of every Microsoft software I had. Maybe Asahi will do the same for other people.
