First Geekbench 7 benchmarks for Apple's M6 Mac mini show significant performance gains, with a 12-core chip running at 4.78GHz delivering 24% single-core and 48% multi-core improvements over the M4 model. The M6 achieves scores of 4,071 single-core and 22,783 multi-core, representing substantial jumps from earlier generations like the M1 and M2.
Gravity Linux is a project using clean-room reverse engineering to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon M4 Macs, with the goal of upstreaming this support into the mainline Linux kernel and other distributions. The team plans to release their first version soon.
Cody Ho and Niklas built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant GPU driver for Apple's M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about one month by reverse engineering the AGX firmware ABI and user-space components using a hypervisor. The driver achieves high performance, running Minecraft at 200fps and supporting WebGL in browsers, and involved clean-room development techniques without accessing Apple binaries.