Writing to the Data volume in a VM is dismally slow. Is using shared storage any quicker? What happens when you copy a VM to an external SSD, or to another Mac?
Category Archive: Macs
On Intel Macs, key combinations determine startup modes and more, but they have no effect on Apple silicon Macs. And how to deal with keyboard problems when logging in.
With Unified memory, don’t you simply add the main and graphics memory sizes from your Intel Mac to determine how much your Apple silicon Mac needs?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 179. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Co-ordinate […]
Some threads are set to run in the background, and get allocated to the E cores. Could you run them in a VM, and effectively promote them to run on P cores instead?
Nearly 6 months ago, many thought the M2 Pro and Max would come in Macs in the autumn of this year. So why hasn’t Apple released them yet?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Co-ordinate hues to […]
How can you set up a single external bootable disk to start up two different Apple silicon Macs, maybe one in the office and the other at home?
Before you try editing or trashing that preference file, ask whether macOS in the form of cfprefsd isn’t going to undo your work.
When he put files or folders on his Desktop, although they were shown in the Finder’s listing of its contents, they simply vanished.
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