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> 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!
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That's the cost for 10x the memory bandwidth of the Ryzen 7950x.
That's... comically untrue. The Playstation 5 has faster memory than the M1 (448gb/s vs 200), and it was manufactured by AMD before Zen 3 or Apple Silicon even shipped. Dual-channel DDR5 should smoke the LPDDR4X in Apple Silicon in terms of memory bandwidth.
Memory bandwidth (peak, not stream)
Ryzen 7950x = 84GB/sec # 128 bit wide ddr5-5200
M1 = 66GB/sec # 128 bit wide ddr5-4800
M2 = 100GB/sec # 128 bit wide ddr5-6400
M1/M2 Pro = 200GB/sec # 256 bit wide
M1/M2 Max = 400GB/sec # 512 bit wide
M1 Ultra = 800GB/sec # 1024 bit wide, m2 ultra not out
Sadly AMD is reserved the improved memory system for the XboxX and PS5. Both AMD and Intel limit laptops and normal desktops (except for the expensive HEDT segment like the Threadripper) to 128 wide memory.
Forgive a bit of ignorance on my end; does Asahi have x86_64 emulation? It would be cool to play Linux Steam games on Arm.
Imho the only relevant parts left are: Sleep (which is being tackled right now), USB-C Extra displays (Also WIP) and Hardware Decode for video.
and audio and screen brightness at least...those don't work on my M2 setup.
Overall tip for anyone using Linux and having issues with audio... USB Audio is magical and works wonder. I never bother with the computer's in-board sound: it's USB Audio immediately through a DAC. Works fine. Apple sells $10 USB-C-to-3.5mmjack DAC which are basically a tiny cable (for anyone lamenting it's "too bulky" to have a full-on DAC next to their laptop).
For desktops: problem doesn't even register. Just bypass the audio components on your motherboard and use a proper DAC.
As an added bonus computers are particularly electrically noisy and a DAC is a great way to do away with all that the noise.
So my advice: just use a DAC with Linux. Plug it in. Marvel at "dmesg" showing "USB Audio" and enjoy quality sound.
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.
Forgive a bit of ignorance on my end; does Asahi have x86_64 emulation? It would be cool to play Linux Steam games on Arm.
is the super fast speed mainly due to Linux the OS? is there benchmark done to compare to MacOS? with most recent hardware and 128GB memory I would expect things will run naturally faster no matter what and Linux might not be the key deciding factor. 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…
Asahi Linux is amazing and pretty usable at this point. However, last I tried I couldn't get stuff like Slack and Spotify to work on it because there are no Arm packages for those. Has anyone found a way around that?
Use the web versions?
Slack works just fine from the browser on Asahi though.
That's really impressive! That said, I really wish someone other than Apple would release something like an ARM64 NUC, with good Linux compat. Even something on par with the SD Gen 2 should be plenty to run a desktop day to day.
I'm not trying to invalidate your specific use case, but in general, there's not really any practical difference between ARM64 and x86 for desktop use. ARM is generally perceived as being more power efficient, but the latest x86 mobile processors from AMD (and probably also Intel) are very efficient. The Apple M series does have very tightly coupled RAM and onboard ML & video encode accelerators, but when it comes to…
I'm pretty sure the biggest intel/amd desktopn cpu is faster than a m1 pro/ultra, m2 pro/ultra but there is no amd64 processer with the same efficiency than the m1/m2 macs.
So I am expecting everything from proper GPU acceleration, power management and sleep to the Touch ID keyboard to be 100% working perfectly fine, all guaranteed then?