Check its protocol support and expected maximum transfer rate, then whether it supports SMART indicators and Trims with APFS. Finally check its real-world performance.
Category Archive: Macs
How power efficiency is just as important to desktop Macs as it is to notebooks, and the story of the Mac mini in power from 2005-2023.
You’ve got a good Internet connection and iCloud should be working fine, but won’t sync data between your Mac and devices. Could it be throttled?
Did you know that, in 64-bit double floating-point format, the number pi is 4009 21FB 6000 0000? Now you can discover that, and reverse from hex to regular decimal, using Mints.
Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Catalina or later, bringing it to […]
Given that Thunderbolt SSDs are unusual and expensive, should you buy a USB4 model that claims to be compatible with Thunderbolt? Watch out for the traps.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS from El Capitan or so, […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 243. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Simon […]
A gentle introduction to the new architecture, from how macOS allocates threads to core types, overflow, variable frequency, ending in huge differences in power.
If you want to work on the same document across different Apple platforms, then the option providing most restrictive access to saved versions is iCloud Drive.
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