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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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post #54

May I ask something, I want an apple silicone MacBook Air and I am probably just be running Linux on it, what are pros and cons of getting an m1 vs m2? Except for more ram or so. Thx

The short answer is that it's just a stupid idea (and a waste of money). Asahi only works somewhat ok on M1.

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the unspoken benefits of being young, you're unlikely to have grown into a management position and can focus on not-management stuff.

This is what managers tell themselves to feel better about their idleness, but in the end it’s just another excuse. Every person is different of course, there might be this one brilliant engineer forced to manage against his will somewhere.

Forced by financial concerns, a decent bunch I'd say.

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what managers tell themselves to feel better about their idleness, but in the end it’s just another excuse. Every person is different of course, there might be this one brilliant engineer forced to manage against his will somewhere.

Forced by financial concerns, a decent bunch I'd say.

Fair, fair. I’d take a salary bump, because it affords an illusion of being able to escape the Cage faster.

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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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 :) )

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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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

You can repurpose a decent hardware, in terms of performance and consumption, to run for far more time than Apple is willing to support it?

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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post #97

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 :) )

If I had to guess. One seeks to reverse engineer hardware to run an open source OS. The seeks to emulate a platform to run a proprietary closed source OS.

If I remember correctly, Apple at the introduction of M1 made some explicit statements about the hardware not being locked down. Something along the lines of nothing preventing Linux to run on it.

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