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Re: Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in

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Post by eschaton » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 9:00 PM UTC

marricks wrote: post #74

smoldesu wrote: post #44

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I can only hope. It would also be nice to see proper Linux support, but I guess that's wishful thinking from Apple.

Yeah... personally that is what makes me most reticent about M1 and future products. With intel you know virtual machines and what not will just work, here Apple actually has to provide driver information and such or we’ll all just rely on hacks which could change generation to generation :(

Virtual machines work, Apple provides not just Hypervisor.framework but also Virtualization.framework as part of macOS so implementing a headless VM app is less than a page or so of code.

Re: Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in

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Post by brokenmachine » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

Shadonototro wrote: post #99

brokenmachine wrote: post #96

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>instead of being jealous at apple Believe me, I'm not jealous. It's baffling to me that anyone would buy Apple's consumer-hostile disposable crap.

disposable crap? i own an iPhone 5 since day 1, and it still works perfectly fine today, even the battery go ask samsung, acer or toshiba if you want to complain about "disposable crap"

Well if we're swapping worthless anecdotes... all my Samsung (and other brand) phones still work. Almost all of them have replaceable batteries, and all of them have headphone sockets!

It's telling that you didn't address the "consumer-hostile" part.

Re: Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in

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Post by brokenmachine » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 12:25 AM UTC

folkrav wrote: post #98

brokenmachine wrote: post #93

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And I can presume that Apple mentioned all of that in the keynote?? They did, right?

I mean, is every company required to tell you every single line of their tactical decisions? They presented a product, that product has specifications. As a customer you're free to check out the specifications, and buy the product or not based on these specifications meeting your requirements or not. Software not being ready was a given, it's literally a new architecture, it's hardly the first time this happens in co…

Obviously I was being facetious.

I was making a point that I'm sure they said that it's already the best laptop made ever, not just dipping their toes in with a rough around the edges product only for early adopters who don't mind broken stuff.