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Category Archive: Macs

Can you trust floating-point arithmetic on Apple Silicon?

M1 Macs may be as fast as greased lightning, but how good is their numerical accuracy? Can it match that of Intel processors?

April 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

How macOS manages iOS apps: RunningBoard comes of age

iOS and iPadOS apps run on M1 Macs in an environment managed by RunningBoard, FrontBoard, FuseBoard, and several assistants.

April 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

How some log entries vanish sooner than others

Sometimes, when you return to examine entries in the log a few hours after they were written, many of them have vanished. How come?

April 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 95

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 95. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Watch […]

April 19, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

iOS apps are translocated when run in macOS

App translocation was introduced to stop malicious software exploiting relative file paths. So how come every time an iOS/iPadOS app is run, it’s translocated?

April 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Death by SMB

Slow performance when backing up to a network share is mainly down to SMB. Without its improvement, Time Machine over a network is still dead in the water.

April 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 95

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

April 17, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Mints version 1.3 improves log handling and addresses time formatting

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With extensive refactoring in the code to display logs extracts, this update should be faster and require less memory on all supported versions of macOS.

April 17, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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 […]

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How abysmal SMB performance can choke networked backups

How can it take over 5 hours to back up 79 GB of files to a network share? That’s an average transfer rate of 4 MB/s, probably slower than your Internet connection.

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

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