Current CPU % given in Activity Monitor can be misleading and has limited value for M1 models. Here’s how to improve it.
Category Archive: Macs
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: This multilingual stone […]
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch: cloud storage is a valuable adjunct, not a substitute for local backups.
Updates replace an expiring developer ID installer certificate. All are Universal binaries, fully signed and notarized.
In Activity Monitor, % CPU isn’t on a scale of 0-100. In M1 Macs, it also makes no distinction between E and P cores, nor does it allow for their changing frequency.
If your SSD suddenly loses power, what is there to prevent it from incurring serious errors as a result? Practical solutions.
Each additional Safari window increases WindowServer’s memory use by 1.7 MB on an Intel Mac, but 50 MB on an M1 Mac – thirty times more.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 139. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Reverse […]
iCloud Drive just works. Time Machine just works. So Time Machine should back up the contents of your iCloud Drive? Maybe not.
Have you found Time Machine docs helpful in solving problems? Do you know what “custom access” means in the Permissions section of Get Info?
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