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Those apple chips are really quite impressive. But, AMD has those fancy APUs now, maybe it is possible to stay in x86 land a bit longer?
by bee_rider 1y ago
Those apple chips are really quite impressive. But, AMD has those fancy APUs now, maybe it is possible to stay in x86 land a bit longer?
- appleaday1 1y agowhat apus?
- bee_rider 1y agoStrix Halo
- TiredOfLife 1y agoAll the zen 5 based ones. https://manuals.omamix.org/3/omacom/74/good-linux-hardware https://manuals.omamix.org/3/omacom/74/good-linux-hardware
- WhyNotHugo 1y agoWhy do you prefer x86? If another architecture offers better performance with the same hardware support, isn’t that good enough?
- bee_rider 1y agoIf Linux runs fine on it, sure. The blog post linked seemed to indicate that Linux wasn’t 100% on the M4 yet. If that’s wrong, then that’s good news.
- microtonal 1y agoAsahi only supports M1 and M2 Macs well (and you will still miss support for some functionality, like Thunderbolt or USB-C DP-Alt mode displays). Ryzen APUs have indeed narrowed the gap and if you want to run Linux, it's probably much better to get a recent Ryzen ThinkPad than a Mac (or get a Strix Halo Ryzen once it lands in the good ThinkPad models). (I am a longtime Mac user, but I recently got a ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 and all the hardware works out-of-the-box and very well on Linux.)