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Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by drob518 »

jug wrote: post #161
Xeoncross wrote: post #74

I'm glad the air now comes standard with 16GB of RAM and 512GB disk space. It's not that the M1 with 8/256GB was slow at all, but even browsing the web gets into 12GB of usage and exhausting the 256GB is fairly easy if you backup your 256GB phone, try to edit a few videos, download enough Gradle/Go/Cargo/Node packages, or install enough 20GB office apps. Any apple silicon with 16GB / 512GB of stage (even the M1 serie…

Even with the $100 price bump, I think this is a win. 16/512 is a very nice base spec on Mac.

That works for a LOT of people. Not me, but the everybody else in my family.

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by kristjansson »

skullone wrote: post #286
kristjansson wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

??? I do dishes with an MBP next to the sink. I wouldn't put it under the faucet, but it's ~fine so far.

I wouldn't if I were you. Indeed there's a membrane that can keep drops away from electronics, but one big drop will find a way eventually. Doesn't even have to be a spill. Macs are infinitely fragile actually, there is zero effort spent on moisture or even dust intrusion.

> infinitely fragile

At last check my 2008 unibody still boots. It can vote in the fall.

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by my123 »

benbayard wrote: post #382
mikae1 wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can maybe get a cheaper Windows laptop but it will be terrible in almost everything It will be worse at almost everything, except running my preferred OS (Linux). Being able to upgrade/repair RAM, storage and battery at home is quite a perk too.

Many newer Windows laptops are now having their ability to update ram and storage removed as well. I believe the newest intel architecture introduced this, but my information might be out of date.

LPCAMM2 is more present on business/high end machines unfortunately. It's not an Intel restriction.

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by oblio »

cromka wrote: post #374
honeycrispy wrote: post #19

I wish they would provide Linux support. I can't stand OSX.

I believe they'll enable it, actually, fairly soon. With this hardware at these prices, if they offered BootCamp again for Linux and Windows, they'd basically own the market almost overnight. Considering they have long-term contracts on RAM and SSDs and that they steep margin on their Mac hardware, there is hardly any reason to not make money off of those who actually wouldn't buy Mac hardware otherwise. Plus, there'…

You must be new to the Apple world. Unless Apple starts failing again as a company (bad financials), they won't provide any official support for Windows or Linux.

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Post by PaulHoule »

timothyduong wrote: post #272
PaulHoule wrote: post #227

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I’ll add that MacOS is crammed with spammy ads for Apple Music and other services I don’t want. To be fair somebody wants Apple Music whereas the Microsoft versions of those things are completely unwanted. Ads and nags in the Windows World are drawn using the same HTML-based technology that has replaced Windows native apps since Windows 8, the ads and nags in MacOS are the 2025 anti-antialiased retreads of the 1999 M…

Just wait til she jumps on a windows 11 device! But I do agree with you. Thankfully it is minimal relative to windows.

First thing I do with a Win 11 install is ask Copilot how to turn all the crap off. ;-)

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Post by 3abiton »

mikae1 wrote: post #320
std_move wrote: post #216

This is the best laptop for the general consumer around $1k. - it has no annoying fans, it is completely silent - a high res display with no PWM flickering and reasonable response times, no burn-in issues, enough brightness for outdoor use - best-in-class hardware, very very efficient, amazing single thread performance, good multi thread, very good GPU - no Microsoft Windows annoyances, ads, bloatware, broken stuff a…

> You can maybe get a cheaper Windows laptop but it will be terrible in almost everything It will be worse at almost everything, except running my preferred OS (Linux). Being able to upgrade/repair RAM, storage and battery at home is quite a perk too.

I totally get it. I have the M4 Air, grabbed it for 700$ on sale. I also have a MSI Creator with Linux (wayland). Performance wise the base Air crunches through everything up until lots of things are open and gpu is roaring (encoding or streaming), and with colima, I have few incus linux containers up and running. Battery life is formidable. Nothing comes close.

My linux laptop (32GB ram / beefy gpu) barely withstand 40 min on battery, but can handle very daunting tasks, and obviously gaming.

These are 2 different use cases, but right now, for the ultra portable laptop, Air is the king, until x64 brings back the efficiency per watt. Even qcom can't compete. That being said, I am a big fan of the apple hardware and not the apple software, so whenever Asahi linux is ready enough (with good battery life), I am definitely jumping ship.

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Post by misswaterfairy »

saghm wrote: post #37
honeycrispy wrote: post #19

I wish they would provide Linux support. I can't stand OSX.

It seems like there are a decent number of people finding Asahi stable enough for regular use: https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1quko4w/how_via... I imagine there are still some rough edges (and it seems like distro choices are probably a bit lacking at the moment if you prefer something outside of a few specific mainstream options) but given how niche ARM support was before the first M1 machines, the pro…

It's worth watching the 39C3 talk about porting Linux to Apple Silicon earlier this year.

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi-linux-porting-linux-to-app...

The jist is that Apple don't want to prevent you from running your own bootable code on a Mac (which isn't true for iPhone and iPad, sadly), as long as you don't compromise the security of Apple's bootloader, code, etc.

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Post by jjtheblunt »

storus wrote: post #384
jjtheblunt wrote: post #363

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one other thing to check is if you installed any kernel extensions...inside Apple engineering, folks with kernel extensions could get bizarre errors since the quality of them could screw up stability with all sorts of symptoms. kextstat | grep -v com.apple would show anything _maybe_ troublesome, but not guaranteed related.

In my case no kernel extensions. Every few days the computer freezes with a beachball and/or screen starts falling apart in large blocks randomly shuffling around the screen and I need to power it off. The first logicboard also added a bunch of pink noise in a few clusters all over the screen. Whenever I got close to freeze my power charging beeps were getting more and more frequent up to around 1 beep per 3 seconds…

definitely unusual, sounds like hardware issue (as someone else mentioned)
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