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Now that linux works on Apple silicon, I wonder if there will be mods like this, while I like the idea of using raspberry in theory, sadly for me is too slow an

Now that linux works on Apple silicon, I wonder if there will be mods like this, while I like the idea of using raspberry in theory, sadly for me is too slow and there are a lot of limitations (hardware wise, is very dated at this point, but cheap).

ekianjo 4y ago
Using which hardware ? M1 cpus are not readily available anywhere
- bdcravens 4y ago
  I think the idea being that both the M1 and the RPi are ARM64
- beenpola 4y ago
  The M1 Mac Mini could work! The actual PCB for it is tiny compared to the size of the case it's presently in. Project video for a shrunken mac mini by Snazzy Labs- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWGFKhBQwU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWGFKhBQwU
- norman784 4y ago
  As others pointed that you could scrap a m1 mac mini (I own one), also is really another powerful processor and yet power efficient than the m1 readly available and with linux support? I find hard to believe, also it seems that mX family will be popular enough to have out of the box linux support, IIRC all the asahi work will be upstreamed, while I bought a raspberry and the linux support is awful, considering all the years raspberry was already available, most distros does not support it and you rely on a lot of hacks to make them run (I do prefer arch linux over all other distros), also the raspberry is not suitable for my use case, I wanted a workstation with low power consumption and there is none besides m1, maybe in the last 2 years a new one came out that I’m not aware of.
freedomben 4y ago
I'm not understanding why Apple silicon being compared to this? Are you just wanting an ARM machine? I need to make ARM builds of several projects I maintain and the pi gets the job done well (especially when headless so the burden of graphical environment isn't there), but does struggle for normal use, especially as tabs tend to proliferate for me. However, the Pinebook Pro works pretty good for me, and is also ARM.
- norman784 4y ago
  Because I own a m1 mac mini, I can work without issues and uses about the same power as the raspberry, I don’t know other cpu that’s capable enough and also is power efficient, intel and amd are huge power consumers, other arm processors seems to be bad for daily use as a power user, also AFAIK linux support for m1 seems to be better than the flagship arm processors of the competition and I do not know other pc like device with arm that is not dated hardware.

ekianjo 4y ago

Using which hardware ? M1 cpus are not readily available anywhere

bdcravens 4y ago
I think the idea being that both the M1 and the RPi are ARM64
beenpola 4y ago
The M1 Mac Mini could work! The actual PCB for it is tiny compared to the size of the case it's presently in. Project video for a shrunken mac mini by Snazzy Labs- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWGFKhBQwU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWGFKhBQwU
norman784 4y ago
As others pointed that you could scrap a m1 mac mini (I own one), also is really another powerful processor and yet power efficient than the m1 readly available and with linux support? I find hard to believe, also it seems that mX family will be popular enough to have out of the box linux support, IIRC all the asahi work will be upstreamed, while I bought a raspberry and the linux support is awful, considering all the years raspberry was already available, most distros does not support it and you rely on a lot of hacks to make them run (I do prefer arch linux over all other distros), also the raspberry is not suitable for my use case, I wanted a workstation with low power consumption and there is none besides m1, maybe in the last 2 years a new one came out that I’m not aware of.

freedomben 4y ago

I'm not understanding why Apple silicon being compared to this? Are you just wanting an ARM machine? I need to make ARM builds of several projects I maintain and the pi gets the job done well (especially when headless so the burden of graphical environment isn't there), but does struggle for normal use, especially as tabs tend to proliferate for me. However, the Pinebook Pro works pretty good for me, and is also ARM.

norman784 4y ago
Because I own a m1 mac mini, I can work without issues and uses about the same power as the raspberry, I don’t know other cpu that’s capable enough and also is power efficient, intel and amd are huge power consumers, other arm processors seems to be bad for daily use as a power user, also AFAIK linux support for m1 seems to be better than the flagship arm processors of the competition and I do not know other pc like device with arm that is not dated hardware.