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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by counttheforks on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:09AM (#34413298)
So it works great except half the hardware doesn't work and it's entirely unsupported by Apple, to whom you paid a significant premium for the hardware?
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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by grozzle on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:30AM (#34413629)
It's a work in progress, users are generally confident that the remaining hardware will gain Asahi support sooner or later.

The fact that Asahi is such a popular project is a pretty strong indicator of how much room for improvement MacOS has, to put it as politely as I can. Personally, I wouldn't even consider buying a new Mac if there wasn't any good alternate native OS available.

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by smith7018 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:26AM (#34413532)
That tends to be how Linux works outside of standard platforms, yes. It takes time for developers to write drivers.
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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by counttheforks on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:55AM (#34440268)
It works great on my custom built PC, and my store bought laptop. Both are perfectly normal pieces of hardware, not apple's weird stuff.
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