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FYI, the Mac Mini M1 has a fan that never turns off. It's very quiet, but it is not 100% silent. To be fair, it is really hard to get the fan to speed up and make more noise.
Mine sits on the desk 20 inches from my head, and I've never heard it.
It always impresses the hell out of me when I see side projects like this project that I couldn’t do myself. On the economic/$$ perspective: the Linux in M1 projects are probably targeted at Mac Minis and given that when you pay for a Mac Mini you are paying for hardware and Apple software. Does this make sense economically, comparing other bare bone systems with a Mac Mini style form factor?
> the Linux in M1 projects are probably targeted at Mac Minis I'm not sure that's true. What the M1 gives you is an incredibly powerful processor that's also very power efficient. That gives you a spectacularly performing laptop with good battery life, making the M1 laptops compelling even if you want to run Linux. If you're plugged into the wall the M1s are still quick, but there are other options to get you into th…
While true, the benchmarks show that recent AMD CPUs have comparable power efficiency, even on single-core loads.
And it might be that a significant part of M1's advantage lives in some (proprietary) scheduling software, so the Asahi Linux effort might not reach the same numbers even with a few years of work.
But then again, some companies just standardize on Apple hardware for their employees, so this can at least allow people to run GNU/Linux in those situations. Someday.
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Ummm, my daily driver is a 2012 iMac, still working fine and receiving updates with a replacement SSD. How old are we talking?
Officially Big Sur is unsupported so you won't be getting updates for much longer: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211238