On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480

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  • ExpansionCards

    Reference designs and documentation to create Expansion Cards for the Framework Laptop

  • I’ve used T series Thinkpads for years (mostly to mimic the environment of most of my clients), there are definitely better computers out there if you plan to swap out most of the parts. https://frame.work/

  • MoltenVK

    MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.

  • It's not made by Apple, but MoltenVK is free, open source and works great on M1/M2 hardware. It's used by many commercial game ports to Mac/iOS devices.

    https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

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  • mbp-2016-linux

    State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016 & 2017

  • That used to be a good solution in like 2015, but there are generations of Macbooks whose Linux support never includes working WiFi or audio: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

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