To this day it is beyond me why people spend hours upon hours in reverse engineering the most proprietary manufactured hardware on earth and shoving more free money down Apples throat instead of just buying something else.
I use it because Apple is the only manufacturer that understands that laptops need great displays, keyboards, and trackpads. Most other laptop manufacturers fail in one or all of those categories. The new Framework 13 may be an exception to this, but as someone that bought the 16, that was hot garbage. So I gave it up for a Macbook.
With Asahi, I have a rock-solid Linux experience on a laptop with good build quality.
It’s not really that Apple put decent speakers in their laptops. They use very smart software-DSP technology to make them sound good. And that’s a prowess.
See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-audio
I mean, you don’t have to buy it. You can buy whatever you want. Hacking stuff just to see if you can hack it is the majority of the motivation behind hacking in the first place.
Especially when products like the Macbook Neo is surprisingly affordable and offers a halfway decent build quality and performance for its weight class, it’s nice to have something like Asahi to make it a real option.
To this day it is beyond me why people spend hours upon hours in reverse engineering the most proprietary manufactured hardware on earth and shoving more free money down Apples throat instead of just buying something else.
I use it because Apple is the only manufacturer that understands that laptops need great displays, keyboards, and trackpads. Most other laptop manufacturers fail in one or all of those categories. The new Framework 13 may be an exception to this, but as someone that bought the 16, that was hot garbage. So I gave it up for a Macbook.
With Asahi, I have a rock-solid Linux experience on a laptop with good build quality.
Oh, also speakers. Apple puts decent speakers in their laptops. The FW 16 had worse sound than many phones that I’ve had.
It’s not really that Apple put decent speakers in their laptops. They use very smart software-DSP technology to make them sound good. And that’s a prowess. See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-audio
Because millions own macbooks and if they support then it can save at least some from obsilescense and e-waste.
This e-waste would not exist if certain people wouldn’t buy Apple devices in the first place…
I mean, you don’t have to buy it. You can buy whatever you want. Hacking stuff just to see if you can hack it is the majority of the motivation behind hacking in the first place.
Especially when products like the Macbook Neo is surprisingly affordable and offers a halfway decent build quality and performance for its weight class, it’s nice to have something like Asahi to make it a real option.
Whatever you say poor