Asahi also has the 42 Beta available today: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-...
Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX
Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX
Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back.
Unfortunately the Asahi project is underfunded (likely one of the reasons the project founder/lead jumped ship recently), and as a result M4 support is likely a year+ away.
Oh wells, let's see what Dell and Lenovo have on offer this spring/summer. Should be able to get a pretty decent PC laptop for less than the $4k+ an MBP 16" with 2TB/64GB will cost.
Going to dive into the details now, thanks...
It's only been a week but thus far it has worked very nicely and I think ended up running me around $1,500.
We see what the future brings, but for now, seems a very solid purchase.
(Edit: as someone mentioned below, the speakers are not very good at all. This was not super important to me. If it is super important to you, you'll be let down)
I bought one. It lasted less than a year. One day I pulled it out to use it and it just stopped booting. It had been barely used up to that point. No drops or anything like that.
Support was giving me the runaround, too -- by not using info I provided them, not answering direct questions, and asking me to provide info I had already provided.
Do some research on Framework support. You'll find it is atrocious.
The idea is absolutely amazing and I hope it succeeds. The expansion cards are an AMAZING feature. The problem is that the quality bar just isn't being met, yet.
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-framework-lap...
It's just a bad laptop: has "hot bag" syndrome, speakers are terrible even with the upgraded kit, the hinge that turns the screen off is very temperamental.
Still no open BIOS, they've hired a “Linux guy” who is super condescending in their official forums and locks topics when he feels the heat.
Stay far away.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/le...
Great keyboard and touchpad and nice display.
In fact, it's even better than Linux as a VM desktop host - finally a reliable suspend on lid close, smooth graphics in VMs, easy context switching between VMs, no silly fiddling with virgl and GPU passthrough etc. It Just Works. I can even play almost all the Windows games I care about - and at totally acceptable frame rates despite x86/ARM translation layers and lack of discrete GPU.
The only issue with that is that the boot chain is not verified, and you are not protected against evil maid attack.