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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Are your apps built to get the best from Apple silicon?

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There’s more to getting best performance and energy efficiency on Apple silicon. These vary greatly depending on how apps are coded, as shown here.

December 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 234

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Tough back problem […]

December 16, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Why apps need to Accelerate

If Apple offered to do much of the hard work of coding your app for you for free, and to optimise it for different Mac hardware, how could you refuse?

December 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

How you can now verify iMessage contacts

New with Sonoma 14.2, iOS 17.2, and watchOS 10.2 is a service that enables you to verify and put more trust in those you message. Full details here.

December 15, 2023 Macs, Technology

Serious bugs remain in macOS Sonoma 14.2

Two memory leaks in the Finder, inability to change password for encrypted sparse bundles, and a crashing bug in Contacts. Detailed and reported to Apple.

December 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

Finding and evaluating AMX co-processors in Apple silicon chips

How to compare an undocumented if not secret co-processor? Using different tests that use very high power, and can result in strange patterns of core allocation. So how does the M3 Pro fare here?

December 13, 2023 Macs, Technology

Evaluating the M3 Pro: Summary

Comparison with M1 variants, energy use with comparison between M3 Pro and Max, virtualisation, Game Mode, vector processing and matrix co-processing – all in summary.

December 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Sonoma 14.2?

macOS Sonoma 14.2 is a substantial update, with extensive fixes to bugs and enhancements to apps and services. […]

December 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Sonoma 14.2, and security updates for Ventura and Monterey

Apple has just released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.2, together with security updates bringing Ventura […]

December 11, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 233

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 233. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Intense […]

December 11, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

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