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I can guarantee MacOS will not run on that computer

Edit: I was not aware that ARM macOS worked on Intel chips

You could get it to run without a problem, but I don't understand why they would portray macOS as having heavier requirements than windows. Of the two, macOS is an order of magnitude cheaper to run than Windows.
- Yah, like, there is plenty of negative things to say about Apple, but they’re actually pretty good about keeping their stuff efficient.
  Like, there is a reason they could get away with 4GBs of ram in the Mac book air as late as 2016.
- It's harder to install on a non-Mac than LFS.
Challenge accepted.
Hackintosh are still possible, so it probably can run ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Give me the internet and about 2 hours
- Also, with Linux, do you really need the whole potato?
ARM macOS doesn’t but x86 CPUs are still supported by macOS for the time being. It’ll be a sad day for the Hackintosh community when they drop that support though
- Might still be possible to run it on other ARM processors.
Looks like somehow could not afford their holographic gaming pc sticker skin for their mac pro tower.
Sucks to be you my friend.

This diagram is wrong. You can't end-mount RAM in that type of potato.

You can at that angle

What Mac has ever had that RGB nonsense?

I think they mean to show something "fancy and expensive."
Which rather ignores the M2 $399 Mac Mini I can go pick up at Best Buy right now, which is kind of insane cost/capability.
But their upgrades are stupid expensive and there are things to complain about with Apple.
- That thing ( the mac mini in all its incarnations) is a loss leader, borderline scam. It is priced way cheaper than it ought to be, so you don't notice that the most basic of ram or storage upgrades cost roughly 6 to 8 times more than market rate. It is so bare bones that you can't do anything actually productive without shelling the other $3-500 for the upgrades. And since everything is soldered to the board it is not user serviceable. The single most expensive piece of shit in the entire market.

DOOM not yet running on a potato based Linux? Hold my beer...

It sort of is...
- Awesome!

Btw that potato uses Arch.

I use starch BTW
- I was unprepared for this and now I need to clean the carpet.

I did the same thing with the Linux machine there, but we got it up and running with a sweet potato using a patch set for the kernel and cross compiling it from the basic potato release. We did find the drivers for the VGA card we salvaged from a scrap pile too! Got it up to the full 640x480 supported by the card.

You could say it was a sweet setup.

This is just a bad meme. I get it. But a terrible meme.

Which Mac model is that?

The Hackintosh, its getting rarer to find though.
- Took them like two decades but they finally almost killed Hackintosh :(. All it took was developing their own CPU

What is actually the lowest end device that can run Linux

I think someone once ran it on a dead raccoon.
- Using it as a case? Or a power source
What is actually the lowest end device that can run Linux
The Pi Zero and LePotato come to mind. Both are pocket sized and surprisingly capable.
But both are modern computers, and Linux has been around for a long time. So I wonder if the correct answer is something much older, larger and less capable. So this is probably a question for historians? (I don't see an obvious answer on Wikipedia.)
- I think maybe my real question is, what's the lowest power device that can run Linux. Kinda like how two potatoes can run a clock
Something like the allwinner A13 is down at the low end of practical. It's about $1 per chip, wholesale. People have gotten it running on an ATMEGA before. It required a bunch of helper components however, and took 2 hours to boot up.
The first Linux kernels were written for the 386 and 486 and single or double digit megabytes of RAM. Early 1990s technology. Before Windows 95 and Pentiums even.
Now, if you want a GUI that runs nicely, at least for some hardware, you probably going to need to hit mid-to-late '90s hardware, and it'll still be pretty basic.

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Itd be hilarious if one day something like that worked, idk how things wouldnt get their signals crossed but science turned lead into gold so i assume something can be done about it in a thousand years.