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Performance per watt is a pretty big metric. Personally the fact they didn’t produce Linux drivers for these things is baffling. It would just make more people
by flatiron 4y ago
Performance per watt is a pretty big metric.
Personally the fact they didn’t produce Linux drivers for these things is baffling. It would just make more people buy them. So what if they don’t run macOS? I would buy a M1 air tomorrow if they published Linux drivers for the full stack.
- macintux 4y agoI have to think they’re developer- and supply-constrained. They’ll make up those sales once others have cracked the problem.
- fartcannon 4y agoThe richest tech company in the world worth trillions is constrained?
- etchalon 4y agoWeird, but true.
- fartcannon 4y agoI don't believe it, honestly. I would gamble that it's because helping Linux grow doesn't financially benefit them, now or in the future. And that, to me at least, feels quite a bit more likely from Apple.
- macintux 4y ago> Personally the fact they didn’t produce Linux drivers for these things is baffling. Followed by > helping Linux grow doesn't financially benefit them, now or in the future Is a bit perplexing. Why are you baffled? Opportunity cost is a very real thing. Apple would probably be better served by developing Windows drivers, if they were going to take developers away from macOS drivers.
- fartcannon 4y agoI didn't write that I'm baffled. That was a different poster.
- macintux 4y agoOops, sorry, the shared 'f' first character must have thrown me.
- etchalon 4y agoYou'd lose the bet. Apple, like every company, is limited by the speed at which their supply chain can produce specific parts. And, while they're often the largest customer for a given manufacturer, they're rarely the only.
- fartcannon 4y agoThere's literally people working on it right now, for free, that they could pay and give access to all of the docs for the hardware that they designed in house.
- MobiusHorizons 4y agoThere are always constraints. Usually it's the time and attention of the people who are working on the problem. Throwing more people at the problem can help, but also adds a lot of coordination overhead to the problem. It doesn't matter how many resources you have, hard problems are still hard.