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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by rbanffy on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:17AM (#26249501)
> please consider buying something with Linux officially supported. Between Dell, Lenovo, and smaller scale setups like System76, there are plenty of options.

My biggest complaint about them is heat and performance: my MBP seems to be almost always ready to take off. Apple really did hit the sweet spot with the M1 and I don't see x86 laptops catching up anytime soon. If they release 32+GB machines, I'll be seriously tempted to get my Macs refreshed even though I know they are essentially discardable machines now.

Also, Apple is the only manufacturer I can count on offering US keyboards without any hassle. Lenovo does that with Thinkpads and with Dell you need to work to find the models that are available with that option.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by Shared404 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:27AM (#26250863)
Those are all valid points. None of them are deal-breakers for me personally, but I understand how they can be.

I wish I could like the M1. I'm honestly really looking forward to ARM and RISC machines becoming more common, as long as there are manufacturers who make them at least somewhat reparable.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by brokenmachine on Thursday February 25, 2021 @10:07PM (#26270999)
>ARM and RISC machines

What OS would they run? Linux?

I wonder if Windows will ever run on ARM/RISC?

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by detaro on Thursday February 25, 2021 @10:11PM (#26271018)
Windows already runs on ARM.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by brokenmachine on Thursday February 25, 2021 @11:58PM (#26271500)
Oh wow, I didn't know that.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by detaro on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:16AM (#26271578)
The groundwork was done for embedded systems, but they added the desktop features and even make a few laptops with it now. But those are generally not very well-regarded, since the x86 emulation is slow and there is basically no native software.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by sitkack on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:45AM (#26294589)
Windows has run on non-x86 processors from at least the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Supported_platforms

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by brokenmachine on Sunday February 28, 2021 @05:42PM (#26297800)
Oh, well that's not so good if it's just emulated x86.
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