It’s great that M4/M5 is booting but M3 support is still sporadic and incomplete.
If the Macbook Neo was capable of running Asahi Linux, that would be really neat! Especially since Apple will 100% bog it down with MacOS updates to force schools to upgrade their devices earlier than necessary.
Especially since Apple will 100% bog it down with MacOS updates to force schools to upgrade their devices earlier than necessary.
Where do these conspiracies come from?
Reality
When apple is involved, usually history. They’ve done it before. It’s not unreasonable to expect it to happen again. Especially since apple themselves are surprised at the popularity of that device. Once they heeleits eating into air and pro purchases, things are likely to change for the neo.
The only thing keeping me from buying a neo is Linux support
Better off going elsewhere for Linux.
Linux will always be a second class citizen for Apple.
Wait, with Asahi booting on a A18 chip, does that mean Asahi on iPhones might be possible in the future?
I would imagine that the hardware on iPhones (touchscreen input, multiple cameras, FaceID) would make it much more challenging and probably not within the scope of the project (!). iPhones are also more locked down then Macs are, I believe there is no way to install an alternate operating system on modern iPhones. Project Sandcastle, a project to implement Android on iPhones, only got around to the 7 (and even then, it had poor support).
Macs explicitly allow booting a 3rd party OS, which makes Asahi even possible in the first place. IPhones actively fight you if you try.
