2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test

Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by foldr on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:56AM (#25125212)

It doesn't make a huge amount of sense to buy a Mac if you're not going to use Mac OS as your daily driver. A lot of the benefits (e.g. battery life, touchpad quality) are dependent on software as well as hardware, and are greatly diminished on Windows or Linux.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by abainbridge on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:36AM (#25125730)

I've never been that impressed with the Mac Mini's battery life or touchpad :-)

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by qz2 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:44PM (#25127816)

Actually I had a Mac mini with the touchpad and the damn thing disconnected three times a day. All my input devices have wires now and the stick out of the right places.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by foldr on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:17PM (#25128306)

Touché. But seriously, most people who want to run Linux on Mac want to do it because they like Apple's laptop hardware. If you want a compact Linux desktop then a NUC should probably serve you just as well. Or at least, this was the case while Apple was still using Intel chips. If Apple Silicon lives up to expectations then I suppose there could finally be a compelling reason for running Linux on a Mac desktop.

To be clear, I'm not saying that there couldn't possibly be any good reason for wanting to run Linux on a Mac desktop. But desktops are already a niche product for Apple, and people who want to run Linux on Mac desktops are arguably a tiny niche within a niche.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by JAlexoid on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:04PM (#25126164)

Mac Mini doesn't raise those issues.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by tonyhb on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:38AM (#25125768)

libinput's touchpad support is pretty great recently. working on an xps 17, and the touchpad is - no joke - just like the touchpad on my previous MBP.

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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by postalrat on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:57AM (#25126053)

You can speculate but we will never know for certain.

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