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Apple introduces M4 chip (www.apple.com)

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[-] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 35 points 7 months ago

Ah again. One more moving target to chase for the nice AsahiLinux project.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

That just means asahi linux not gonna die and will be really long lived project because it have a clear purpose, well, it is if we try to have positive outlook on situation

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

It isn't all that different than the M3

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

I love it on my M2 Mac mini. Useless with macos because it needs more than 8gb of ram just to start without loading anything but Asahi turns it into a fantastic ARM server. I just wish GPU team had more resources to finish the driver. M2 is absolute shit at transcoding on CPU. I mean it's also terrible on GPU, but I can't complain considering how little power it consumes.

[-] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

AsahiLina was at it yesterday, ultimately chasing Vulkan compatibility:

https://vt.social/@lina/112371925319342726

[-] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

I know, but I don't care about GUI or gaming. I just need transcoding.

I guess they did a poll and most people want kde on these to replace their desktops so my use case is low priority. That's why I wish Lina and her team had more resources.

[-] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You're not wrong. That's why I kept a small macos partition to do the hard crunch when needed, like rendering in kdenlive. Everything else I can just do on Asahi, including Ardour multitrack exports.

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