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[-] bedrooms@kbin.social 36 points 8 months ago

I love my ARMed Mac because battery life. I almost never use the power cable outside.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

And it’s really responsive even on battery. It’s actually a little bad because I can have too many windows open and can’t find anything.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

MacOS doesn't throttle performance on battery like many Windows power plans do, that's why

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Well it can when it needs to. It just doesn't need to much

[-] Sentau@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

MacOS doesn't need to throttle performance because ARM and other RISC architectures are naturally very power efficient

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

They didn't do it on x86 either I believe.

[-] Sentau@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Well those Intel CPUs used to thermal throttle anyway in their outlandishly inadequate cooling designs so they did not need to throttle power either way. Now they could throttle power but don't have to

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

If only I could get wifi to work on a linux partition, it would be the perfect linux machine.

[-] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

The wifi worked fine for me on Fedora Asahi, macbook air m2.

[-] bedrooms@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe you can buy a USB-C Wifi interface that's small enough. Assuming there's something like that.

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