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Category Archive: Macs

Why old installers may not work

Certificates in an installer must be valid when the installer is run. Six years ago, all Apple’s ran out, and it had provide new versions. How to cope with that.

November 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: What do those CPU frequencies mean?

Given what we know about the base M5, is it really a significant improvement on the base M4. What features should we be looking at?

November 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 332

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: I came […]

November 1, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Preferences

Hundreds of app preferences are hidden away in ~/Library/Preferences and elsewhere. What do they contain, how do they work, and how can they crash an app before it’s even running fully?

November 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

When time is out of joint, the log falls over

When the clocks went back, looking in the log for entries at 01:49:02 brought a very great surprise: in one Mac, nearly 4 million entries in a single second.

October 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Updated CPU core frequencies for all current Apple silicon Macs

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How operating frequencies of CPU cores used by the latest base M5 chip compare with those from previous families in the M series, and what that means. Complete with updated tables for all current chips.

October 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Disentangling timestamps with Dropera 2

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Study how the four key timestamps of a file change when you create, edit, preview the file, using Dropera.

October 29, 2025 Macs, Technology

Updating CPU frequencies for Apple silicon Macs

A call for help: can you help complete this table of all the CPU core frequencies of M-series chips? M3 Ultra and M5 values are requested, please.

October 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 331

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 331. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

October 27, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Should you repair permissions?

First we repaired disk permissions, until SIP made that impossible. Then we reset user permissions until Apple withdrew that advice. Next we ran repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Should you still use that?

October 27, 2025 Macs, Technology

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