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P.S: the 3440x1440 screenshot in TFA looks gorgeous on my system. Everything is using subpixel AA (terminals, code editor, browser, except for the URL, for whatever reason) but not the file manager. I wonder why that is.
I'd be curious to see properly done benchmarks against top of the line Intel or AMD machines. I'd be surprised if the Mac was faster. I do understand that people want the Mac for the build quality of the laptop, not just for speed.
I'm a Linux user, considering to get a M2 Mac Mini these days, and probably load Linux, even better and if possible, dual-boot as I do need MacOS to run some ios apps on emulator.
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Not everything will work. Once upon time I tried to make CTF with M2 Pro, and I seriously wished that I had x86_64 Linux instead. Many of the penetration testing tools are not mainstream and they include pre-build x86_64 binaries, or are configured just to not compile with ARM, for reason unknown. And there is no time to figure out what is wrong. I know this might be a niche scenario, but still...
I cannot imagine a worse idea than downloading a binary artifact promulgated by someone in the competitive infosec community.
I'd be curious to see properly done benchmarks against top of the line Intel or AMD machines. I'd be surprised if the Mac was faster. I do understand that people want the Mac for the build quality of the laptop, not just for speed.
I find LG Gram laptops to be of higher build quality than Mac laptops. They may be pricier too depending on which LG Gram and which Mac you buy though.
Mac laptops feel and are incredibly brittle. They may look shiny and the screen may look gorgeous, but they're simply brittle.
People here and there like to make fun of "MILSPEC" but my MILSPEC LG Gram can sustain quite a beating. Meanwhile my M1 Mac is 1/5th the age of my LG Gram and the M1 Mac's screen is already broken.
Mac laptops are very good looking but they are not, to me, of great build quality. They're also heavier than my LG Gram.
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It's a shame Apple is Apple and you can't pay a reasonable price for RAM, otherwise these would make awesome servers.
That's the cost for 10x the memory bandwidth of the Ryzen 7950x.
Does anyone know how cost effective a base M1 Mac Studio would be compared to a PC build with comparable cost? There's also the obvious set of trade offs, such as being quiet, compact, but being unrepairable, while the PCs having nearly the opposite qualities. Is the power efficiency of Apple Silicon still a major advantage in a desktop system?
It’s about half the cost to build your own based on Ryzen thread ripper and DDR5. I’ve done this before however, it’s not ARM64. It also requires like 1000w power supply. Can you build a machine just as capable? Yes. Will it be as efficient? No. Will it be Arm? Probably not. That said, I run Apple MacBook Air as my daily so YMMV. *edit* ok a bit more than half. Chip shortage has scalpers sitting on threadrippers.
Are these ARM64 Mac using ECC? P.S: the 3440x1440 screenshot in TFA looks gorgeous on my system. Everything is using subpixel AA (terminals, code editor, browser, except for the URL, for whatever reason) but not the file manager. I wonder why that is.
It's documented: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787
> Is there anything that doesn’t work? > To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No.” > Everything works… and works perfectly. That is impressive and really hard to believe! I guess I'll have to find an M1 mac Mini to try myself!
Builtin speaker support is still a work in progress. It works if you know what you are doing and are not afraid to damage your speakers if you make a mistake. There's been progress on this though, so I expect this to be resolved sooner than later.
There's no builtin speakers in the author's mac studio though, so I'll give them a pass for this one.
Bluetooth and wifi both work, but their drivers are still buggy. I see a lot of errors in dmseg from these drivers and occasionally things stop working and require a reboot to fix.
GPU acceleration works, but there is still a lot of work to do on that driver.
External displays over the thunderbolt ports don't work yet.
Other things that don't work on the laptops: webcam, touch-id / Secure Enclave, some miscellaneous software.
Don't get me wrong, I've been able to daily drive linux only on my m2 air since August. I love the hardware and the current state of Asahi meets my needs. And its been steadily improving over the course of time. But its far from "work[ing] perfectly" yet.