An accessible summary of the CPU cores in M1 chips, and how they appear to be managed by macOS to get the best for different classes of process.
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Results from running 10-70 identical compute-intensive processes on M1 chips shows the differences in strategy between background and high priority settings.
A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 133. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]
Apple’s Private Relay service isn’t a full VPN, but is designed to ensure that no one knows both your IP address and the sites you connect to. Is it a good choice?
Since Catalina, reports of Time Machine backups slowing to a crawl have become common, but the reasons are unclear. It’s time for Apple to inform us.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The period allotted […]
Is logging out and back in again a good way to deal with problems? Although it can be, it might not do what you think it does any more.
Running processes at different Quality of Service affects their performance differently on Intel and M1 Macs. This explains what happens.
Once the kernel takes over from iBoot, there’s a lot of hardware to get running before the SSV can be properly validation, and kernel extensions loaded.
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