Last September, Tahoe replaced Apple Diagnostics with a new and improved suite of tests for Apple silicon Macs. No one seems to have noticed, least of all Apple.
Category Archive: Macs
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Stop operating […]
It’s the percentage of time a core in active, when not idle or shut down. That’s confounded by Intel Hyper-threading, and frequencies of Apple silicon cores.
How to remove all the privacy redactions, and reveal network diagnostics including the URLs connected to by your Mac.
After logging in, macOS may check for system software updates, run an initial Time Machine backup, and run XProtect Remediator scans. This is how those happen.
For once, Apple’s bland statement that “this update provides important bug fixes and security updates” may be the […]
Apple has released updates to macOS, to bring Tahoe to version 26.3, and security updates for Sequoia to […]
If you’ve upgraded to Tahoe, your Time Capsule should still back up normally. But erase it to start new backups, and Time Machine refuses to back up to it any more.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5329, from the previous release of […]
Spotlight indexes on-the-fly so new and changed files are quickly searchable, but periodically needs to assimilate those into its more static indexes. That and Live Text extraction are run following startup.
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