It’s a strange coincidence that Intel and Microsoft came up with similar hardware of P and E core types in a SoC, and identical terminology for thread allocation using QoS.
Category Archive: Macs
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Forty has the […]
How to interpret various measurements reported in Activity Monitor, from % CPU to Energy Impact, and how they can be compared across different Macs.
macOS Monterey is the first version with support for lightweight virtualisation on Apple silicon. Here are its greatest limitations, which make it look more like a dress rehearsal.
If you’re running a beta of Ventura on an Apple silicon Mac, here’s a virtualiser for GUI Linux with a footprint of only 33 MB.
All about memory: different types, Unified Memory, Mach zones and the kernel, and how to manage system memory problems.
I was sat in front of my desktop ‘controller’, and the pointer and keyboard were stuck on a Mac which had just shut down. What to do next?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 163. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Both […]
It’s all too easy to lose all previous versions of a document: one false move to another volume, to iCloud, or shared over a network and they’ve gone. How can you preserve them?
If you’re still running macOS Mojave or earlier, now is the time to take action to ensure your Mac maintains protection against malware.
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