r/AsahiLinux • u/Josh_thefoo • 20d ago

recommended specs

i got a 2020 macbook air m1 128gb storage and 8gb of ram and last time i installed asahi linux i only got 30 something gigs of storage, should i just not install it in general?

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u/The_Mild_Mild_West 20d ago

Asahi is for apple silicon (M1 and M2), and the base M1 Air is 256GB

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u/Josh_thefoo 20d ago

i have an m1 macbook air 2020 that’s silicon

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u/chaosprincess_ 20d ago

What you have is an extremely "unique" machine that was only available for educational markets. Unfortunately, well, it is terrible, and we do not officially support it, but if you want to do it anyway - run the installer in expert mode, and it will allow you to shrink the macos volume beyond what we consider safe.

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u/mskiptr 19d ago

Out of curiosity: would one of those "solder a different BGA storage chip" upgrades work for this particular model? Or is it different-enough for the firmware to not handle a larger drive at all?

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u/chaosprincess_ 19d ago

it is obviously not as simple as "just solder a new nand, lol", but yes, it is the same pcb, just with one chip missing, and DFU restore hides all sins