I bought a Mac Mini in February and maxed out the ram and storage. Now, it seems like that was a prescient move, but honestly I really only bought it for photo editing and playing the new World of Warcraft expansion (don't judge me!).
replyAnyone have a good take on how well Asahi linux keeps the power management working on mac hardware? The biggest killer feature for me of mac hardware is the battery/weight. I have found it hard to get a good laptop in the linux ecosystem mainly because of power consumption. If Asahi doesn't really impact the battery life then I would seriously consider going that route. Similar question about support for pytorch on linux/arm64 / Asahi.
replyI think it's improved from when I last tried it, but it still isn't great. You can get like 60% of the battery life compared to macOS.
replySomeone with more recent knowledge correct me on this, but I believe idling is the biggest power drain in Asahi. You will want to shutdown and/or hibernate whenever possible.
Too bad I can’t play the games I want to play on them
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replyssshhhhh... do not tell anyone I told you...
It's horrible. Bad quality, bad latency, can't mod the games etc. And worse you have to pay for it when you already have a more than capable computer.
replyi wouldnt go as far to say "its horrible".
replyi would never recommend it to someone who otherwise has a capable computer, of course, but it really isnt that bad. i gave it a pretty thorough test out of curiosity, and when they sponsored a few streamers i watch, it was totally fine. with the caveat that you have a decent internet connection and its probably not good for twitchy games like counter strike.
and, as far as i know, there is limited support for modding and some unsupported workarounds.
You pay an $1k extra just to get the model with 1TB disk. How is that a steal?
replyThe AMD395+ PCs have unified memory and since it's not tied to a garbage OS nor reasonably affected by future dram costs, it's a better choice for reasonable people, unless you're going for greater than 128GB
replyGood Mac Pro models are still spendy, but the M3/M4 laptops are great if your software use-cases are met. =3
replyI’m still doing great even with an M2!
replyI mean they're still expensive, they just seem relatively good value because everything else has gotten more expensive.
replyYeah, that's what @SlightlyLeftPad said.
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