well I am a long time Apple user and for my business I prefer their specific hardware makes it easier to develop software for only one type of hardware. Apple are not perfect but it works for my business.
At the office we had 5-10 2019 MPBs that we could not use due to security and few people including me installed Linux on them with full disk wipe and no dual boot, I put endevours on it had no issue.
we also have few ARM Apple mac books that we don’t use, will be happy to test Linux on them when endevorus os ARM version is out on September 19 2020, even a custom kernel will not be an issue.
You don’t need to hack anything if you like to install Linux on Apple even dual boot apps exits
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I’m just curious, how are they? I assume they are testing models or perhaps you’re confusing the Macbook models with the Intel Atom chips?
I’m wondering about this as well. I don’t think ARM Macbooks have made it to the testing market yet.
please read carefully I never said I tried that, only that I am using linux on MPB, MacbookPro is intel.
I have not tried to install endevours os on MacBook with ARM, but will try when ARM ISO is out.
Post edit comment: the hardware is called mac mini not mac book, my mistake.
The question was about if there are any ARM based Apple machines out in the market or those you have are testing models.
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we have about 10 test macbook pros we don’t use since the magic touch bar presented as a security issue for our software, I am unclear on the details, so we were left with very powerful PCs we cannot use, so they work wonderful for test PC for Linux and VM hosts using Linux
2.4GHz 8‑core 9th‑generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz
32GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory OFF; Intel® UHD Graphics 630 ON
1TB SSD storage
Including my test PC for Endevours OS, same hardware as above.
No I am not confusing the macbook m core with ARM, I forgot they were called Mac Mini not MacBook.
They 1 year old custom ordered Mac Minis with ARM cpu
they use the MacOS version made for MacBook with intel M Core.
We needed ARM based hardware for certain drone / satellite tech, that is why custom order.
I may be wrong about the exact ARM model, but I believe the CPU was: Rockchip RK3399; Mali T860 GPU; 4GB 4GB LPDDR4 RAM. Sadly the hardware was too low power for MacOS so we have already instaleld Arc Linux
The official ARMs powered MacBooks or Mac Book Pros are not out yet as far as I am aware.
The ARM Mac Book Pros were planned for September 2020, as far as I know will be December 2020.
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I bet you could sell those for a significant mark-up.
Also that sounds very cool.
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well when I say my business, it refers that I only work at it, at least in my native language it meas that.
no need since we always find useful stuff for other PCs. Like old mac book pro 2016 with nvidia now gaming pc with steam in the break room, sadly with windows, maybe one day Linux with Lutris.
Yeah, so with the 4 the boot files still need to be on the SD card but the rest of the files can technically be on a USB drive. Some people might not like messing with the firmware (I’m not sure whether it’s a standard update, been a little while since I checked when it was beta) so this is a simple enough alternative that doesn’t cost too much more for something you’re still going to need anyway.
site is in Hebrew and apple reseller is from Israel, I am sure others offered this as well since 2019.
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Actually, looking at the specs I wonder whether they took a ROCKPro64 and pushed it into a Mac Mini case. 
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Yes, it is ALWAYS difficult to adapt to a new language !! (34 years in Israel and I still think like a French 
). שלום ושנה טובה !
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never used a rock pro, so I cannot confirm or deny, I know they said they sold a of them for arch linux.
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True since you always think about what you wanna say in your native language at first.
Yeah true Pierre, September 19 2020 is The Jewish New Year or Rosh Hashana,
excellent day for testing and playing with Endevours OS ARM
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is their an alpha or beta version of the endeavouros arm for testing now?
one team mate at the office said that the cpu is same as on pinebook laptop from pine64 org
see this
https://kobol.io/
also this
https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/
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How can an x86 OS version run on ARM hardware? intel M core is x86 if I recall right.
Edit: I just saw that it wasn’t intel M core, and it was a RK3399 (Rockship) CPU.
I assume they are using them same OS that is enabled for the atom m core cpu, maybe not.
the site is from a reseller based in Israel, not official Apple website. FYI if you are a mac developer you can download arm mac os beta, write in google arm mac os you will find release late 2020.
where did you read that I wrote that we USED the MacOS on them? I said custom hardware order we used another OS, the release maybe selling them with Linux who knows.
we used a custom operating system for satellite and drone navigation on them at the time, not MacOS.
This is so interesting! I’ve neve seen an ARM based Mac before, thats why this announcement was so big, because they are going to start developing MacOS for ARM architecture, and I didn’t know it had been done already. I’m seriously confused right now with what might be offered in other countries.
My bad, I just assumed that the whole point of getting a Mac was to use MacOS. I never seen anyone getting a mac to just install Windows or Linux on them. Apologies.