In Activity Monitor, % CPU isn’t on a scale of 0-100. In M1 Macs, it also makes no distinction between E and P cores, nor does it allow for their changing frequency.
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If your SSD suddenly loses power, what is there to prevent it from incurring serious errors as a result? Practical solutions.
Each additional Safari window increases WindowServer’s memory use by 1.7 MB on an Intel Mac, but 50 MB on an M1 Mac – thirty times more.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 139. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Reverse […]
iCloud Drive just works. Time Machine just works. So Time Machine should back up the contents of your iCloud Drive? Maybe not.
Have you found Time Machine docs helpful in solving problems? Do you know what “custom access” means in the Permissions section of Get Info?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Reverse to support […]
The master compositor of windows, WindowsServer is a key part of the GUI which runs from when the login window appears until your Mac shuts down.
All disks cache data to be written, which makes benchmarking them tricky. It has more serious consequences which macOS tries to allow for in file systems and backups.
Upgrading to Monterey is simple for the great majority of users. But what can you do if you can’t get it to install? Here are plenty of options.
The Eclectic Light Company 