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The first true MacBook Neo rivals are here, packing double the RAM and storage of Apple's budget laptop (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You can install Linux on them, so they win in the OS department in my opinion.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You actually cannot, or on any M4 hardware yet. I think the furthest people have gotten so far is a basic bootloader, but I haven't seen any recent upstream updates from Asahi on this.

https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m4/

Looks like somebody made a bit of clever work to get around the SPTM problem though: https://github.com/rusch95/asahi_neo

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think they meant on these neo competitors, you could install Linux, which they thinks is better than macOS.

I have a MacBook Pro and agree. I just wish I could get iMessage on Linux for my family that can’t / won’t change to signal or similar.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

I recall there was a kid who managed to reverse engineer the iMessage protocol for this purpose. He was successful, but Apple patched over the ability to do it.

https://www.techradar.com/phones/it-took-a-genius-teenager-to-break-imessage-code-but-itll-take-apple-to-wake-up-and-realize-its-time-for-an-android-version-of-imessage

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I mean the competitors to the neo

[–] luckyeddy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought Neo has the A18?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Missing "or". Edited to add.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Cant wait to see if Erying get some ES boards on the market from this generation.

My 13th gen Erying ES board is an absolute champion, I'd love to retire my power hungry 9th gen 9900k file / media server with something more capable in the iGPU department.