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Refurb M1 Air + Asahi.

Wait a cycle then maybe do the same with the M2.

This is it - nothing beats my asahi m1 air on anything: price, battery life, desktop cpu grunt, no throttling either thermally or on battery. I can't believe the best arm machine is made by Apple, 3 years on.

Eventually we'll have arm machines made by other PC manufacturers, I'm most excited by Lenovo, but till then. $600 gets you a powerhouse of a machine.

where are you buying these for $600? Lowest I am seeing is $800.

$700+ on backmarket

>Eventually we'll have arm machines made by other PC manufacturers

As someone who has been waiting for this to happen for nearly fifteen years now, you'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath.

But at this point, why not use OSX directly? In the end, you can do the same things as on Linux. What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Mac?

One thing you can do is turn off the nauseating animation when switching between desktops/spaces.

Does Asahi maintain the crazy battery life these have? The battery life on my work Macbook Pro has me interested in switch to an Air for personal use.

Still needs some optimisation, but my m1 air oh asahi still has crazy battery life. Gets better every month!

Has to be better than the 1.5 hrs I get on my Acer running Mint.

What is the current status of Asahi? Seems to be still in Alpha

I daily drive asahi on a mac mini m1 - everything I need to build my music, podcasts, code, and yt videos[1] works great.

The raspberry pi has given us 10 years of warm-up for ARM compatibility.

[1] eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY0XwMOSzq4

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