Comment by marmarama

You can get surprisingly good results from cheap laptop hardware (as well as fancier hardware like an MBP) using software DSP techniques. One of the things I'm pleased about is that quite a bit of Asahi's audio work is just as applicable to generic laptops as it is to Macs.

I already use the Bankstown bass harmonics synthesis plugin developed for Asahi and a convolution EQ on a cheap HP laptop, with startlingly impressive results, using the Pipewire plugin chain autoload feature also developed for Asahi.

I suspect there are quite a few use cases for this beamformer outside of the Asahi ecosystem as well.