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Post by philistine »

sysworld wrote: post #358
philistine wrote: post #325

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Unfortunately, Apple is not one to revisit their previous decisions very often. With the move to Apple Silicon, the capabilities of the bootloader were locked in (chain-of-trust, ability to load other OS and keep chain-of-trust on macOS) and that was it. Apple is telling you what they support; there's never any damning secret with them. You want to run Linux? Run it in a VM on macOS. That's what marketing has been sa…

I don't mind using Apple's native Hypervisor framework, it's better then QEMU (speed/overhead), but Apple has no support to passthrough USB ports. https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/3778

That is definitely something Apple must add.

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Post by vladvasiliu »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #334
alfiedotwtf wrote: post #252

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How’s ACPI and real suspend (not that “fake” soft suspend) these days? I’m still burned after running Linux on a laptop since 2002 and not having proper power management for suspend :( … if it’s not the power layer, it’s the network, video, Bluetooth that won’t power up anymore after a nap

> How’s ACPI and real suspend On a current ThinkPad? Essentially perfect. Zero problems suspending and resuming, no matter what's going on, including weird cases like suspending while docked and resuming while undocked or vice versa.

Do current thinkpads still have real suspend? I thought it was discontinued by intel. And if they do, how do you enable it? I haven’t seen anything in the bios of my p14s g6

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by vbezhenar »

my123 wrote: post #394
benbayard wrote: post #382

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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 I believe the newest intel architecture introduced this, but my information might be out of date.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.

There are Intel CPUs which come with bundled RAM. For example Intel Core Ultra 5 238V. It's like SoM: RAM is mounted directly on the CPU package, not even soldered on the motherboard. I'm not sure what particular advantages does that bring over traditional packaging, maybe shorter wires to allow for faster turnarounds between CPU and RAM. But there's zero chance of upgrading or replacing RAM for sure.

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by fiedzia »

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.

> Being able to upgrade/repair RAM

Most upcoming laptops now have soldered RAM and soldered wifi becomes common too.

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Post by Shadowmist »

sitharus wrote: post #401
dangus wrote: post #389

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Literally the moment you buy a Mac. Apple hardware comes with 3 month trials of various subscriptions, and you get a notification about it. They try to get you to sign up in hopes you’ll forget to cancel. When I bought my iPhone 17 the sales associate even tried to pitch signing up for the trial in person as he guided me through the purchase process. When you cancel the trial it ends it immediately instead of ending…

Every time my Windows gaming PC updates it nags me about setting up backups to OneDrive. I cannot install Windows without a Microsoft account unless I apply work-arounds. It constantly offers Office 365, even adding dummy icons to the start menu. There are adverts on the login screen. To be fair I installed Bazzite there, but for a laptop I cannot find an equivalent device at the same price point even ignoring the ne…

Even after saying no to OneDrive and doing all I can to remove it, it tends to randomly come back months later and will automatically start uploading my desktop and documents folder to the cloud.

Edit: I even specifically bought the Pro version hoping to be able to shut some of this off.

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by winrid »

std_move wrote: post #318
winrid wrote: post #311

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How do you know there's no PWM flicker? Even my M3 Pro with its supposed 10khz backlight burns my eyes, I had to get rid of it. Is this display not oled?

MacBook Air has an IPS display with no flickering, see https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Air-15-M4-review... Recent Pros have miniLED with high freq PWM.

Oh damn, that's awesome!

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Post by SXX »

cassepipe wrote: post #427
SXX wrote: post #383

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On M1 there are still issues with wifi not recovering after sleep and for me its just disappear sometimes. Something like Framework is more expensive thanks to RAM abd SSD shortage, but Linux support is so much better.

Funny you should say that since my framework intel 12th gen just started dropping wifi/bluetooth randomly and one cpu starts looking for it frantically in a loop almost bringing the laptop to a crawl (it's very likely a hardware issue and not a linux issue)

Not saying Framework is perfect, but I daily drive Asahi on Mac and its just rough all very over.

Dont get me wrong - Asahi is great undertaking and impressive work. Its just idea of buying hardware specifically to drive it is not rational.

There is a lot of hardware with more compkete and stable Linux support.

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Post by bombela »

css_apologist wrote: post #22
julianozen wrote: post #10

Damn. Will this company ever make a Mac with cellular built in

why?

To everybody trying to justify apple not offering a wwan option.

On Thinkpad you can add the module later. It's a simple upgrade, open up the laptop and plug in the wwan module. The Thinkpad already comes with a sim tray. Though today presumably you would use an esim.

But hey you can pick a color for your macbook, so that's something.

Extra rant: the hardware quality of modern MacBook is fantastic. The keyboard sucks. The reflective screen sucks. The number of ports is ridiculously small. Soldered ssd and ram etc etc. Fantastic battery life. My thinkpad is a turd in comparison. But at least it doesn't bend when dropped. MacOS is horrible, Linux is the only thing I want. Sleep on modern PC is broken by design. A MacBook sleeping loses 1% of battery per day. A thinkpad loses 100%. Why can't we have nice things god dammit.

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by mikae1 »

fiedzia wrote: post #444
mikae1 wrote: post #320

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> 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.

> Being able to upgrade/repair RAM Most upcoming laptops now have soldered RAM and soldered wifi becomes common too.

At least you have the choice to pick one that does not.
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