Enlarge / We’re still a long way away from a smooth, quick boot with a fancy Asahi logo centered on the screen and (presumably) a soothing startup noise. (credit: Asahi Linux) Asahi Linux—founded by Hector “marcan” Martin—has merged initial support for Apple M1 hardware into the Linux system-on-chip (SOC) tree, where it will hopefully make […]
Enlarge / GoSearch22 isn’t, technically speaking, any sort of “virus.” But it’s certainly not anything you’d want on your shiny new M1 Mac. (credit: Pete Linforth) Last year, Apple released Macbooks and Mac Minis powered by a new ARM CPU—the Apple M1. A few months later, malware authors are already targeting the new hardware directly. […]
Enlarge / Users can install Homebrew via the Terminal in macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) Popular Mac tool Homebrew has long been used by developers and others for package management on macOS, but as we lamented in our first M1 Mac review, it didn’t support Apple Silicon when Apple’s new Macs first launched late last year. […]
The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. [credit: Samuel Axon ] For the first time, users of Apple Silicon Macs using Apple’s M1 chip—such as the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and MacBook Air—can now boot in to and natively run Linux. The vintage at play here is Ubuntu, and the port was developed by Corellium, […]
Expand / / It’d be fantastic to see Linux operating and fully working on Apple M1 hardware such as that Mac Mini–{} appears unlikely to take place. (charge: Produnis / / Jim Salter) In a recent article on the Real World Technologies discussion –among the very few public net venues Linux creator Linus Torvalds is […]
The picture representing the Apple M1 processor, as exhibited by Apple in an event earlier this season. A while {} an Apple campus construction, a bunch of engineers got together. Isolated from the other people in the business they even accepted the guts of outdated MacBook Air laptops and joined them for their prototype boards […]
Expand / / Chrome is not available from the App Store–you will want to download it with Safari. Whenever you do, then Google will ask you which model you want to download. Even the Google Chrome browser is currently available as a Apple M1 native program, for all those of you fortunate enough to possess […]
Expand / Apple’s brand new octa-core ARM big/little CPU is placing its own top performance x86 contest on note. (charge: Apple) There is a good deal of clear excitement across Apple’s ARM-powered apparatus at the moment. And we have conventional reviews of these devices and their ecosystems, for Apple lovers as well as the Apple-curious. […]
The new Macbook Air using M1 is a 13″, totally fanless and quiet layout. Following 15 years sending Mac computers using Intel chips, Apple has announced information about its very first Mac to forgo Intels’ CPUs in favour of Apple-designed, ARM-based processors dubbed Apple Silicon. Apple announced the very first Apple Silicon Mac are the […]