In a major technical breakthrough, the open-source community has successfully booted a graphical Linux desktop on Apple's M3 silicon. This deep dive explores how developers reverse-engineered the proprietary chip in record time, the implications for the developer workstation market, and what this means for the future of ARM-based computing.

In a major technical breakthrough, the open-source community has successfully booted a graphical Linux desktop on Apple’s M3 silicon. This deep dive explores how developers reverse-engineered the proprietary chip in record time, the implications for the developer workstation market, and what this means for the future of ARM-based computing.

  • ceiphas@feddit.org
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    11 days ago

    But their notebooks are massively overpriced design tokens with way too less RAM. As if “kernel hackers” now flock to Apple products just to install asahi.

    It’s nice to see that Apple cannot block FOSS, but aside from that, you cannot buy m3 hardware from another supplier, so … Meh…

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      Well for me it’s good news for when these devices won’t be supported by Apple anymore and they’ll become really cheap.

      Although the fact that most of the parts aren’t replaceable is also a problem in that case…

    • aksdb@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      In business notebook comparison they are well within the norm. For private use … yeah, that’s a lifestyle choice.

      • vandsjov@feddit.dk
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        11 days ago

        This is true. I changed from a Windows laptop to a Mac and it was more or less the same price.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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      11 days ago

      I just want macbook-level non-computing hardware (the case & hinges, screen, keyboard, mostly, but good speakers, mics & battery are a bonus too) & it’s not that ez to find in laptops (if there even are comparable puters out there).

      I don’t need much computing power, 16GB RAM is plenty too, tho I wouldn’t say no to a 15h battery.

      It’s just my use case - I want something built really good even if it has a Pentium in it (not that I’m comparing Ms to Pentiums) .
      And I also don’t wanna spend 3+k monies for a laptop I’m about to use a few times a year.

      Nothing else fits my case, I might try it for the lolz.

      • poopsmith@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 days ago

        XPS13. You can still get a 1080p non-touch screen with Ubuntu pre-installed (at a discount vs. windows). I’ve had mine just over 3 years and it’s still going strong.

    • possum@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Playing devils advocate here. I saw the C3 presentation of the Asahi Linux team back in December, they showed that while Apple is not contributing to the project, they’re intentionally leaving the door open to install other OSs, not trying to “block FOSS”.