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Category Archive: Macs

Which Macs will be officially supported by macOS 12?

Apple should announce macOS 12 next week, but which Mac models will support it? Look in the firmware, not the tea-leaves for this speculative list.

June 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 101

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 101. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Crib […]

May 31, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

M1 Macs have a third Recovery mode

There’s 1 True Recovery, Fallback Recovery and one other recovery mode. Disambiguation, explanation and how this changed in macOS 11.4.

May 31, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: How it took 6 months for M1 Macs to work properly

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Soon after Apple started delivering M1 Macs, users found that they couldn’t boot them from external disks. Six months later, this has largely been fixed. What went wrong?

May 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 101

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Crib or text […]

May 29, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: deduplication

Track down all those duplicated files, and you could save yourself loads of disk space. Rather, you used to be able to. Why this doesn’t work so well now.

May 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Overnight, Apple has pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

May 29, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Why cloning Big Sur isn’t as useful for an M1 Mac

For some, inability to clone to the internal SSD of an M1 Mac seems disastrous. In reality, it could achieve little, and there are better solutions.

May 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

M1 Macs running Big Sur 11.4 support external disks fully

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macOS 11.4 has finally fixed all the problems with installing current and older macOS on external disks, and booting an M1 Mac from them.

May 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur 11.4 brings LocalPolicy and recovery access to M1 Macs

What are a new kernel extension and a private framework doing in macOS 11.4? Here are some details, and suggestions for further research.

May 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

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