No need - Apple doesn't check the student discount... they just ship. HOWEVER, the M4 Mac Mini can sometimes be found @ MicroCenter for $44 even!!!
We just got a MicroCenter in Santa Clara. It's been a long drought since Fry's Electronics closed down.
buy right now... it is ON FUEGO...
buy right now... it is ON FUEGO...
Do you have a link to this? Couldn't find a reference to it on Google, except as a Spanish word.
No need - Apple doesn't check the student discount... they just ship. HOWEVER, the M4 Mac Mini can sometimes be found @ MicroCenter for $449 even!!!
HOWEVER, the M4 Mac Mini can sometimes be found @ MicroCenter for $449 even!!!
I don't have a mac mini, but my daily driver is a M3 MacBook Air. I have to say it's by far the best machine I've ever used. It's quiet, wicked fast, light, and has amazing battery life. I went Air over Pro since I don't like the air vents on the left and right side bottom on the pro, those seem to cut my hand when I'm carrying the laptop.
I've heard good reviews of Apple's M* machines. If someone isn't a big fan of MacOS though, I wonder if it would make sense (or if it's even feasible) to install another OS on them, such as a Linux distro?
I've heard good reviews of Apple's M* machines. If someone isn't a big fan of MacOS though, I wonder if it would make sense (or if it's even feasible) to install another OS on them, such as a Linux distro?
I've heard good reviews of Apple's M* machines. If someone isn't a big
fan of MacOS though, I wonder if it would make sense (or if it's even
feasible) to install another OS on them, such as a Linux distro?
Well - the Asanti (Ashanti??) dev team recently dove off the political bridge and said they weren't gonna work on the project anym0re - so...
Sorry, but Apple did a slamdunk w/ their Apple Silicone move. IMO, no Linux project is even close to unleashing the full potential of that architecture - and it will NEVER be on par IMO.... but I hope I'm wrong!
So much more all the BS woke FOSS issues. Fun times.
paulie420 wrote to Nightfox <=-
Well - the Asanti (Ashanti??) dev team recently dove off the political bridge and said they weren't gonna work on the project anym0re - so...
k9zw wrote to paulie420 <=-
There are many approaches to doing this, but this one is fairly slick:
https://k9zw.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/tricking-out-the-m4-macmini-acasis -m002pr
o-dock/
Easy install and setup.
I don't know what's "political" about that (I certainly don't think I mentioned anything political); and I didn't say Apple did a bad move
with their Apple Silicon either. I was just curious if Linux supports them. I don't see why Linux couldn't take advantage of the potential of that platform (eventually, at least), but maybe I don't know enough
about it? If Apple wants to prevent an OS like Linux from running on
it, that would actually seem a bit wierd to me..
I was actually thinking that a platform like Apple Silicon + an OS like Linux could be a good combination.
The Asanti devs decided to pull out b/c they were upset that Trump is ruling the U.S. at the current...
I'm not familiar with Asanti.
Asanti is the only Linux distro that got to GPU acceleration on Apple's M1/M2 silicone.
I think it was an extremely heavy task - and subsequent chips would take more and more development. So I do commend the devs for taking it on, and succeeding - but they recently walked away; or at least stated they were doing as much - as some sort of protest to the climate... or a simple exit b/c it WAS a heavy lift.
Again - applaud and appreciate their work; just wish we could all get along...
But hey, it's FreeBSD/Darwin
underhood. what you may not like in
I was actually thinking that a platform like Apple Silicon + an OS like Linux could be a good combination.
BTW, just because it's a MACH kernel doesn't make it FreeBSD :). They tried including a whole bunch of scripts from FreeBSD with earlier versions of OS X, but they all failed miserably because it was more NeXT than anything else.
I was actually thinking that a platform like Apple Silicon + an OS li Linux could be a good combination.
Great idea until you figure this out that Apple is all but a rational company.
I keep reminded about that every time I need to deal with them in person... this company is so emotionally instable that making any
rational moves is all but Apple in my humble opinion.
They may look strong today and I love many ideas from them (Silicon
among them) but bear my words.. they will go through another bailout sooner or later and there will be no MSFT to rescue them that time.
I still enjoy Mac-OS in terminal but yeah.. I get the point, when I ho> compare it to my Linux VMs and remote hosts.. that freedoms are limited ho> and routed more and more to apple way of thinking which starts to become, ho> occasionally annoying.
phigan wrote to hollowone <=-
On that note, you used to be able to run Darwin on Macs instead of full blown OS X. I wonder if that's still a thing. Probably not :).
I just watched a video of a guy running Apple Rhapsody on an old Intel box. Those were interesting times...
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