M1 Mac

killingthemonkey · 03-04-2021, 02:54 AM

I'm going to be buying myself one of the new M1 MacBooks. If I want to settle for 8GB of RAM, I can pick it up today. If I order a machine with 16GB from the Apple site, it won't ship for 11 days. All of the Apple stores in my area shut down trying to avoid the plague.

My use case is this, functioning in MacOS for daily stuff, and one VM running Kali for a Cybersecurity course I am taking.

Right now, I'm running Ubuntu with a KDE Plasma desktop on an Alienware Alpha, Core i3, and 8GB of DDR3 PC1600. Which seems to run the VM fairly well.

So, instant gratification (8GB), or wait for the eleven day(16GB)s?

Help me out here, please. I am notoriously bad at self-control.

Emerson · 03-04-2021, 03:06 AM

You do know it is ARM architecture and there are no Linux device drivers for most of its devices because Apple is not willing to share any technical information?

syg00 · 03-04-2021, 04:04 AM

I take it you haven't read this then ?.

Emerson · 03-04-2021, 06:13 AM

Interesting, but there is a long way to go before it is usable for regular users. And how the hell you run Kali on it, VM or not?

beachboy2 · 03-04-2021, 08:14 AM

killingthemonkey,

Before laying out your cash, you may wish to read this article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AAYwMb6NoI

It is probably nothing to worry about, but you never know.

killingthemonkey · 03-11-2021, 07:27 PM

Well, I did it. I went with the air with 8GB, because I didn't want to wait. I like the machine, overall. My only gripe is one I knew I was going to have. Not a lot of software for the ARM architecture yet. I was forewarned. I enjoy using it and the system really is efficient.

@beachboy2, I had seen that article already. Not too worried.

@emerson, Kali won't be the issue. Right now, the issue is a working hypervisor. Parallels should have that sorted in the next couple of months.

@syg00, good article.

fatmac · 03-12-2021, 03:30 AM

Sounds good, but I don't pay the Apple tax for hardware - I have been using ARM processors though - I have several RPi, & find the RPi4B/4GB & RPi400 work well as desktop computers.

syg00 · 03-12-2021, 04:16 AM

I have an Apple Newton sitting in my bookcase. Only thing I was ever coerced into buying from Apple. Swore never again.