Then once the manufacturer makes that decision, switch. Honestly this comment is just nonsense.. Apple has always allowed other OSes on Mac. When that changes, buy a new computer.
The selling point of Macs is the Apple ecosystem and UX. If you avoid Apple, what's the point of M1? Linux on equivalent AMDs is cheaper and more compatible.
- (Potentially) programmable top notch security chip with no overhead encryption
- Fanless (Air), cool running, fast processor with very low power consumption
- All metal body
- Top notch HiDPI screen with color accuracy.
- Top notch sensors
- Excellent, illuminated keyboard
- Big trackpad with pressure sensitivity and taptic engine
- Excellent battery life
- Excellent battery endurance
- Very high sound quality, good speakers, good mics.
- High quality webcam
- Light for its class
- WiFi with plenty of antennas, MIMO support and all modern standards, incl. forward facing ones.
Is the M1 keyboard significantly better than MBP (with the touchbar)? because that keyboard was crap. To be absolutely fair, good keyboards are hard to come by these days, and that's also why i'm using a logitech from 2006 via ps2 adapter.
Nearly all the HW items have equivalent or superiour replacements, and a fair amount are dependent on the Apple ecosystem. Without Apple's ecosystem it's a good system but overpriced, and that's before you run into Linux compatibility problems.
For example, take the monitor - there are monitors with higher refresh rates or more resolution (Retina does 'only' 6K). Also, Mac OS colour processing has no good equivalent elsewhere, so you won't see as much benefit from Apple's monitor without Mac OS.
Until the manufacturer decides otherwise.
Like every other system since UEFI came out a decade ago. Do you use a Librem phone/laptop yourself?
Most other manufacturers aren't in the business of pushing their own OS.
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Then once the manufacturer makes that decision, switch. Honestly this comment is just nonsense.. Apple has always allowed other OSes on Mac. When that changes, buy a new computer.
The iPhone came out 14 years ago, and still doesn't allow switching OS. What more do you need?
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The selling point of Macs is the Apple ecosystem and UX. If you avoid Apple, what's the point of M1? Linux on equivalent AMDs is cheaper and more compatible.
> If you avoid Apple, what's the point of M1?
Need more?
- No jank at all. The most comfortable-to-use laptop I’ve ever had, desktop latency wise.
- The ability to use nix-darwin for configuration management. It may be incomplete, but there’s no Windows equivalent.
- Higher single thread performance than any other device.
There's no doubt that Apple makes good hardware. But you can find decent hardware elsewhere, even at lower cost and with better configurability.
Everyone betting on the same horse is usually a bad strategy.
By the way, here's what Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) thinks about using the M1:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-would-like-to-u...
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Is the M1 keyboard significantly better than MBP (with the touchbar)? because that keyboard was crap. To be absolutely fair, good keyboards are hard to come by these days, and that's also why i'm using a logitech from 2006 via ps2 adapter.
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- No dumb LEDs keeping you awake.
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Nearly all the HW items have equivalent or superiour replacements, and a fair amount are dependent on the Apple ecosystem. Without Apple's ecosystem it's a good system but overpriced, and that's before you run into Linux compatibility problems.
For example, take the monitor - there are monitors with higher refresh rates or more resolution (Retina does 'only' 6K). Also, Mac OS colour processing has no good equivalent elsewhere, so you won't see as much benefit from Apple's monitor without Mac OS.
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Wouldn't the M1's power efficiency be applicable on Linux as well?
In theory, sure. It’ll need a lot more work than simply getting Linux working, and we’re not even there yet.