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[–] btsax@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago (5 children) How soon until Asahi will run on it permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (2 children) How soon until Asahi will run on it Years. Asahi fully relies on reverse engineering by the community and those community members tend to get hired by the competition. Get a device where the platform designer supports Linux development upstream if your priority is Linux. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Could you give examples? My hope is to get a laptop at commodity mass produced prices, but where everything works flawlessly with Linux. I've heard that old thinkpads are the way to go, but I don't really understand which models to look at specifically. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Could you give examples? AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.) I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically. As long as it's without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright. permalink fedilink source parent [–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago This was my first question. This laptop looks like a really strange bird from the hardware point of view. It runs OSX (Tahoe), but uses an iPhone/iPad CPU (not an M1 or M2 CPUs that Asahi runs on today). permalink fedilink source parent [–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 months ago you can run "normal" (non Asahi) Linux on those, since they have a normal cpu permalink fedilink source parent
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (2 children) How soon until Asahi will run on it Years. Asahi fully relies on reverse engineering by the community and those community members tend to get hired by the competition. Get a device where the platform designer supports Linux development upstream if your priority is Linux. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Could you give examples? My hope is to get a laptop at commodity mass produced prices, but where everything works flawlessly with Linux. I've heard that old thinkpads are the way to go, but I don't really understand which models to look at specifically. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Could you give examples? AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.) I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically. As long as it's without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Could you give examples? My hope is to get a laptop at commodity mass produced prices, but where everything works flawlessly with Linux. I've heard that old thinkpads are the way to go, but I don't really understand which models to look at specifically. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Could you give examples? AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.) I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically. As long as it's without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago Could you give examples? AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.) I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically. As long as it's without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago This was my first question. This laptop looks like a really strange bird from the hardware point of view. It runs OSX (Tahoe), but uses an iPhone/iPad CPU (not an M1 or M2 CPUs that Asahi runs on today). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 months ago you can run "normal" (non Asahi) Linux on those, since they have a normal cpu permalink fedilink source parent