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Category Archive: Macs

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

Can you create an external bootable disk by cloning an M1 Mac?

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Cloning has been a popular way of creating external bootable disks. Now that CCC 6 can make full clones of disks for M1 Macs, is it a solution?

May 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Temporary restrictions on comments

I regret that I have just had to tighten restrictions on making comments across this blog. Because one […]

May 25, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

What has changed in Big Sur 11.4?

The Big Sur update to 11.4 is significantly smaller than that to 11.3, and its lists of changes […]

May 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Big Sur 11.4 update, and Security Updates for Catalina and Mojave

Apple has just released the update to bring Big Sur to version 11.4. This appears more modest in […]

May 24, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 100

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s special centenary edition of Mac Riddles. Here are my solutions to them. […]

May 24, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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