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Category Archive: Macs

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 80

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 80. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Hold […]

January 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Disk read and write tests go random in Stibium 1.0b6

Now with proper random write and read tests, sophisticated analysis including group medians and linear regression, and detailing reporting.

January 4, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Fessing up

If you’re using Catalina or Big Sur, you should by now only be obtaining apps from four sources: […]

January 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 80

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Hold me […]

January 2, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Macs of the past and the future

Processors haven’t just increased in speed and packed more transistors into a smaller space. Features such as the Neural Engine in the M1 show Apple is moving in a different direction.

January 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Let’s make 2021 the year of Disk Utility

There’s no more critical app on your Mac, yet Disk Utility has suffered years of neglect – years in which APFS has grown many new features, and all Disk Utility gets is bugs and workaround.

January 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

No Big Sur in Remote Recovery (Intel)

If you try booting into Big Sur in Remote (Internet) Recovery, you’ll get Catalina instead. But nowhere does Apple alert users to this problem.

December 31, 2020 Macs, Technology

Getting SSD performance data which make sense

Can M1 Macs really defy the laws of physics and read files from SSD at around 12 GB/s? Or are their performance improvements more modest?

December 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Securing sensitive data

Securing sensitive data from access by others, and safeguarding it from loss of damage, is common. Solutions range from encrypted images to specialist external disks.

December 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Christmas Mac riddles (79)

I hope that you enjoyed this year’s special Christmas Mac Riddles, episode 79. Here are my solutions to […]

December 28, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

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