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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by chrisseaton on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:33AM (#24532492)
> They're a premium manufacturer that produces desktops and laptops that only run MacOS

I think you can run Linux, Windows, some of the BSDs, on them, can't you?

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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by _-___________-_ on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:51AM (#24532563)
Windows is officially supported by Apple.

Linux works, but the latest models usually have bad driver support for a while. I'm using a 2-year-old MacBook Pro with Arch Linux and it works fine after some tweaking.

BSD is not well supported.

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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by m4rtink on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:52AM (#24532786)
It is unclear if it still be the case once they switch from Intel CPUs to ARM - not looking good if their locked down walled garden mobile hardware is any indication.
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Re:Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability by reader_mode on Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:30AM (#24533134)
If by can run you mean half of the hardware doesn't work on linux and the drivers are shit on Windows then yes. And I doubt this will be the case on ARM.

Apple is quickly turning from pushing he at a premium to pushing HW and services in a walled garden package.

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