How the M1’s asymmetric cores can run background tasks more efficiently, or deliver high performance, according to Quality of Service.
Category Archive: Macs
Big Sur 11.3 fixed a bug which stopped indexing of the contents of RTF files. Here’s how to ensure all your RTFs are now accessible in Spotlight searches.
How an M1 Mac can start up from an external bootable disk, and how that can fail. All about boot security policy, and how that’s applied.
How changing a volume’s boot policy can let you boot in older macOS, and update, if you wish. For anyone who uses external bootable disks with an M1 Mac.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 98. Here are my solutions to them. 1: An […]
With a new version of Xcode, I knew that my network backup would take several hours. Then, as it neared its conclusion, disaster struck: the router reset itself and the network share vanished.
How ready are M1 Macs now for general use? There are still problems with docks, external boot disks, and using one external boot disk with multiple Macs.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: An incision […]
How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.
A new support page contains supplementary info for Mints and its log extracts and tools.
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