P cores are conventional in that they can deliver excellent performance at maximum frequency, but with high power use. E cores may take 4 times as long for a task, but use less than a third of the energy.
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Today, 4 October, this year’s MacSysAdmin conference has started. Before you book your flight to Sweden, as with […]
A popular insurance when upgrading to a new version of macOS: how to keep your Mac running both Monterey and Ventura. Covers all models including M-series.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 171. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Afterthought […]
An accessible account of how Apple silicon chips use cores of two different types to do their work, and how to get the best from them as a user. The start…
In the past, a second, cloned bootable volume on a separate disk was a great advantage. Cloning has become harder, and Recovery better. What should you do now?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Afterthought of different […]
Copies, clones and backups are three different things. Here their differences are explained with examples from APFS and modern macOS.
Over its year as the current version of macOS, how big were Monterey’s updates? Did they improve over those of Big Big Sur, and make updating any easier?
Apple has just pushed its regular fortnightly update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or […]
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