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posted by chromas on Monday November 12 2018, @02:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the apple-is-now-dead-to-me dept.

Apple's MacBook Pro laptops have become increasingly unfriendly with Linux in recent years [...] But now with the latest Mac Mini systems employing Apple's T2 security chip, they too are likely to crush any Linux dreams.

At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systems.

[...] By default, Microsoft Windows isn't even bootable on the new Apple systems until enabling support for Windows via the Boot Camp Assistant macOS software.

From Phoronix.


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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 12 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday November 12 2018, @05:21PM (#760972) Journal

    "no" means "no big problems afterwards but the machine tended to heat up a lot".

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:14AM

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday November 13 2018, @12:14AM (#761103) Journal
    "the machine tended to heat up a lot"."

    True of every Titanium Powerbook I ever worked with - and I worked with many of them. If the interior was cleaned regularly and they were kept in spec they would *almost* stay in spec on temp - and spec was pretty hot. And of course they get gunked up just as easy as any other laptop - maybe easier than some.

    Once the cooling efficiency degraded even a little, trying to do real work on them resulted in temperatures high enough to make typing on the built-in keyboard uncomfortable, and of course to damage components over time.
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