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Too bad it was not Apple who hired her for M4, but in business leaders are always the most closed ones.
Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work. Too bad they are clamping down on the walled garden to focus on consumer toys instead.
The author basically speedran modern graphics APIs on 'impossible' hardware and then just... walks away. Total mic drop.
It is accepting a new challenge.
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> Honestly if Apple had embraced Linux, the Apple Silicon CPUs would have been amazing for all sorts of server, scientific, and AI/LLM work. You can already do this work on M1/M2 using Asahi. A compute server doesn't need fully working peripherals and external displays.
How would GPGPU work in such a scenario?
I never understood this project. Maybe I'm missing something, but the timescale is such that by the time they're done the product isn't even being sold anymore At least with Panfrost it made more sense bc it still being used M1 chip laptops can only be bought second hand at this point
I'm curious, why are not these people hit with C&D from Apple? And other great projects, like Corellium (Actual iOS VM, not that crap Apple makes) are hit hard with lawsuits etc. (You know, great project for these people who is still RE iOS for 0days and report them to Apple, which is behind me long time ago, reporting 0days for peanuts, yeah right :) )
With all of Apple’s secure boot stuff they had more than enough ways tot totally squash running alternate OSes on the machines like a bug.
Instead they seem to have gone out of their way in a few places to make it not only possible but secure.
They’ll NEVER say anything publicly, or give documentation, but they’re leaving doors open on purpose.
(Why) are the M3 and M4 really that different from M1 and M2?
Beyond that, each M series generation also brings more of the system into the SoC. For example, the entire storage controller is part of the SoC in the M1, but the M2 brought in the trackpad controller as well.
Bringing more functionality into the SoC has many advantages but it does make it more difficult to target because you can’t just make use of existing off the shelf controller knowledge to apply to it.
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I believe Walmart has a deal[1] with Apple to sell[2] M1 MacBook Airs. This has been the case for a year or so, so I don't think it's old stock. They have been in stock for since that date, and slowly getting cheaper. [1] https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/16/walmart-m1-macbook-air-launch... [2] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-MacBook-Air-13-3-inch-Lapto...
Oh interesting! I for some reason thought Apple devices can only every be purchased from Apple (maybe that was only during the Steve Jobs era) But 8GB of RAM.. that's unfortunately completely unusable by most developers. (Panfrost drivers you can at least use on RPi-like devices) Maybe in another 5 years it'll work on the M3/4 and I'll revisit this. Good to know the devices are still being built so long after release
The Walmart deal is a total mystery. It started, seemingly, as dumping new old stock without selling it on Apple.com, but they’ve even updated the machine I think so clearly it’s an ongoing concern.
Nothing like it I know of for Apple, ever. I’d love to know the story.