Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Fitter opens packages […]
Category Archive: Macs
After two unscheduled updates to Sonoma, neither has been released as an RSR. Has Apple given up with its new lightweight macOS updates?
Examines two special core allocation modes: for the virtual cores in a macOS VM, and in Sonoma’s new Game Mode.
Apple has just released a security update for macOS Sonoma, bringing it to version 14.1.2. The download is […]
Why macOS may refuse to give you a very large sparse bundle, how you can’t change the password of encrypted sparse bundles, and more.
Looks at power use and energy efficiency in M3 Pro chips, deriving equations for energy use according to numbers of cores used and their role.
Automatic Time Machine backups aren’t scheduled to run at precise times, but when it’s convenient. This explains how, and what to do if goes wrong.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 231. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From […]
Using assembly language test loops to understand the differences between M1 Pro and M3 Pro CPU cores casts new light on their differences.
How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it.
The Eclectic Light Company 