Every day I use my Mac intel 16” I regret not waiting 6more months and get the M1 version.
Sold my 16 inch a month before the M1 came because I knew what was coming and I could spend that time away from a laptop. I got the full specced air (cause that’s what was release first) and that air was way snappier and equal or faster for my tasks (programming, photo editing) than the almost maxed out 16 inch. Best decision and you should switch asap.
I’d rather wait for the M3 release or whatever if it’s gonna be the same price for more performance.
Why wait for M3 when you could wait for M4???
This is the reason I’m still using my 2012 MBP (with OpenCore Legacy Patcher).
2015: “Ew, butterfly keyboard? I’m going to wait until they release non-butterfly keyboard models”
2020: “They finally stop using butterfly keyboard, but M1 will be released soon. Might as well wait another year”
2021: “Not all apps has been ported to ARM yet. I’m going to wait a bit to see how it goes”
2022: “What’s that? M2 is going to be released soon? I can wait just a bit more”
2023: “Wife just got an M2 macbook air and it’s really nice, but what’s this talk about M3 getting released soon?”
It’s the opposite for me. Every time I use my work M1 mac, I miss my personal Intel one. I have so many issues with the M1. It’s by far the worst mac I’ve used.
Wanna do a swap?
I got an intel right when the M1’s came out because I didn’t want to be a guinea pig for the M1. I guess I will move up to M2 when those prices start to fall because the fan is a huge drag. Otherwise I love it; it was my first Mac.
I myself only use “unsupported” macs I’m fine till oclp(opencore) stops supporting them. Probably when apple drops the last intel mac.
This is a cool project. Thanks for this I had not heard of it before.
Really easy to use and set up. Highly recommend when you have an older mac(my 2012 i5 8gb doing perfectly fine for lighter tasks and normal use)
It’s been pretty much the go to option for unsupported macs since dosdude1 pachter was discontinued.
I’ve got a 2011 MBP that I’ve run Linux on with little issues. What does this do that is different or better?
I think that you can’t really compare it to linux since oclp let’s you run OSX. I wouldn’t say that it’s better or worse just different.
Okay let me word that differently, what does it bring to the table?
It’s an incredibly easy way to get the osx completely(most of the time) working on older/unsupported macs. Which massively increases the lifespan of a mac
They’ll be supported by Linux
I have an MacBook Air intel (2020). I’m really tempted to just sell it or trade it in and get a m1 or m2 air. I have an m2 air for work. The only downside is 1 external monitor but I’ll probably never use it that way. I will miss being able to use virtual box. I know time is running out on the intel variants though.
You can always upgrade them to a Linux distro. I run my Mac with fedora.
Do you use a mouse or trackpad? Last time I used Linux on a Mac my only issues with loss of smooth trackpad.
Linux on m-chip macs are so good that Linus uses one himself.
Thats the linux linus, not ltt linus
Would really love it if Adobe would become compatible with M1. I have an M1 Max and editing anything other than ProRes 1080 is impossible.
that’s ridiculous they haven’t added apple silicon support yet. literally every app on my Mac has native support by now. with the money adobe rakes in there’s no excuse for them.
They also dragged their feet switching from PPC to Intel. Something tells me Adobe isn’t using Xcode, where you just flip a switch.
stuff that’s supposed to be fast might have lots of little bits and pieces here and there written in assembly, for performance. Replacing all that for a new architecture (while ensuring you get the exact same result) takes quite a bit of work
