macOS will delay disk and other input/output operations for background tasks like backing up. Is there any point in disabling that in an Apple silicon Mac to make backups faster?
Category Archive: Technology
In Ventura, VM disk performance was poor, with write speeds of 0.7 GB/s. How fast is it now in macOS 26.4, and how does using FileVault affect it? Plus a note on problems with BSIs in VMs.
During a macOS update, the progress bar tells you each of the phases as they’re completed. This explains how you can track progress and make more sense of what’s happening.
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5335. As usual it […]
When trouble strikes a disk image, macOS normally refuses to accept and mount it. This details how to use hdiutil to attach the image as a device so it can be repaired by fsck_apfs.
The update to bring macOS Tahoe up to version 26.4 is hefty at around 7.15 GB (more than […]
Apple has released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.4, and security updates for Sequoia and […]
If you’ve installed the new Creator Studio versions of Keynote, Numbers and Pages you’ll have noticed those apps have the same name as the iWork ones, and can sit side-by-side with them. What trickery was used to do this?
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 352. Here are my solutions to them. 1: British sister […]
The new ASIF disk image type is now 18 months old. How well does it perform? Is it as good as claimed? It all depends on whether you want to use encryption.
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