[tinco]

Is it safe to boot on an expensive laptop like a MacBook? I remember when Linux had missing drivers there were risks that you'd overheat your machine because the laptop manufacturer was controlling a system fan in some nonstandard way.

[waddlesplash]

Macbooks >= ~2013 or so will run into this kernel panic shortly after boot: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/13189

2012 and earlier Macbooks pretty much work, I'm told (though you will hit the remaining NEC/Renesas bug I mentioned in the blog post, so use a USB2 drive until we manage to debug that.)

But yes, generally our hardware support is not quite as good as Linux's, so you will have a mixed bag in Macbooks. High-end PC laptops (e.g. Dell XPS 13) are fine.

EDIT: According to the comment below, it seems I was misremembering, and these problems occur on 2015-and-up Macbooks, not 2013-and-up.

[smallstepforman]

I run Haiku natively on MacBook Pro 2014 (11.3), on SSD with EFI boot. Have working audio (headphones only), wired ethernet (no WiFi), very usable Hi-DPI display (2880x1800) with basic framebuffer driver. Retina MBP up to 2015 should all work like mine. Good enough for developing apps.

[LIV2]

MacBooks still control the fans in some nonstandard way so you need to install some software to control the fans for you, not sure if it exists for haiku though

[jesikat]

I've booted Haiku on a 27" 5K Retina iMac, 6th gen i7 without too much hassle. The AMD graphics didn't work, so needed VESA mode.