I looked at the prices of the cheapest M1 Airs and the pricing is way too steep. But it doesn't work for me if they tax me in october but deliver in march. On apple's side, they come up with a new product once a year, and they want to space out that product over the year. Romania is not very high on the list of important clients. It's been 3 months ffs and my unit still ain't here. When we say asahi linux, i don't think it's so much a distro, but a group of hackers that get to contribute to the kernel on regular basis for the m1 cpu and soc. As far as linux goes:Ī more comprehensive report from the guys themselves. Or should I say x86/amd64 is less efficient. They still have a turbine I seen in teardowns. Yeah, they are very silent I hear, but I dont think they are passively cooled. Gentoo IRC channels reside on Libera.Chat. I wonder how much hassle installing Linux on it is and how's the performance then.

M1 MacBook Air would be the sweet spot for me because it has pretty much performance considering it's passively cooled. I feel like I already was with the raspberry pi. I just love how last year people shrugged of apple m1. Forcing other giants to move that way too. But also, I think it's the tiny pebble that gonna break the camels back. The M1 is the only thing that actually gave me a fizz in the last few years (as James May would put it).

I'm sure If they made theirs work, we could just use the booting method, and maybe some utils & stuff, and make gentoo work on it. Asahi linux already has a full desktop up, minus GPU acceleration. It's already started and I can't wait to take part. OFC installing linux, and specifically gentoo linux on it is top priority. A laptop wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I do have the phone, tablet, watch and earbuds. Its not like I'm an alien to apple things. I looked at the macbooks with m1, they seem sturdy. I didn't have good experiences with ati, amd, intel, nvidia, and at this point, if there's another alternative, especially in the arm space, I want to try it. It's not so much about how much of an apple fanboy I am, but at this point, its about how much of an Intel hater I am. Apple's Intel Macs may well have an M.2 slot too, which if so, would just increase the confusion further if they include M.2 mass storage slots on Apple Arm computers that use the successor to the Apple M1.Īm waiting for my machine, which should come in a month or so. M.2 slots are available on a variety of motherboards, including towers, and particularly including hardware that has no connection to Apple. The two most obvious candidates are Socket M2, a now very obsolete CPU socket design, and M.2, a relatively current standard for connecting mass storage devices, usually NVMe drives. Wikipedia's disambiguation page for M2 says it's even worse than you thought. Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Gentoo on Macbook Air/Pro M1 (ARM64)

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