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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Forcing decisions

Will macOS 16 support Intel Macs? All T2 models, or just a few of them? What about the 5 year rule? It’s all down to demand and cost benefit, and maybe convincing those who have been sitting on the fence.

May 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 308

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: One of […]

May 17, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of architecture transitions

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68K to PowerPC in 1994-1998, on to Intel in 2006-2009, and to Apple silicon from 2020. The 68K emulator, Rosetta, and Rosetta 2 that enabled backward compatibility.

May 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

Temporary suspension of comments

Due to an attack by a comment spammer, I regret that I have suspended all commenting to posts […]

May 16, 2025 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Comparing in-core performance of Intel, M3 and M4 CPU cores

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How much faster are the P cores in M3 and M4 chips, compared to late Intel Macs? How do they compare when running threads at low QoS, such as those of macOS background tasks?

May 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Check your network backups and shares, as AFP is being removed

Are you prepared for the removal of support for AFP in a ‘future version of macOS’? Here’s what you need to know, and what you should consider doing.

May 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

What has Apple added in advance of macOS 16?

Pasteboard privacy protection, a Magnifier app, Vehicle Motion Cues, Braille Access, Accessibility Reader, Apple Diagnostics and many others coming to a macOS 16 next month.

May 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

May 13, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to tell the difference between copies, clone files, and hard links

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Distinguishing conventional copies, clone files, symlinks, hard links and Finder aliases can be confusing. Here’s how to tell them apart with using Terminal.

May 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Sequoia 15.5?

The update to macOS Sequoia 15.5 is likely to be the last to include remaining enhancements and fixes […]

May 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

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