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Category Archive: Technology

When an M1 Mac mini is faster than an M1 Pro: contention and core allocation

When running some tasks confined to E cores, the original M1 chip from 2020 completes them significantly quicker than an on an M1 Pro. Here’s the detail.

February 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Core allocation in M1 chips

Users and other processes have very limited control over which threads are run on which type of core. As Apple Silicon develops, this is an area set for change.

February 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 137

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A trip for […]

February 5, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Can you change lid behaviour of M1 MacBook Pros?

Fed up with your M1 MBP always starting up, or waking from sleep, when you open its lid? How might you change that behaviour?

February 5, 2022 Macs, Technology

When clouds break the sun doesn’t shine

Recent problems with syncing to iCloud have been widespread, and mainly affected apps sharing working documents across platforms. More on changes to OneDrive and their impact.

February 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has just pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

February 3, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Diagnosing Bluetooth problems in Monterey

The first tool you need to tackle Bluetooth problems shows the quality of connections. That’s a problem in Monterey at the moment. Here’s why.

February 3, 2022 Macs, Technology

Have Monterey updates got smaller?

Going from 11.0 to 11.6 required over 50 GB of updates for an M1 Mac. Has Monterey tamed the beast, and reduced them? And which Macs will be supported by macOS 13?

February 2, 2022 Macs, Technology

What shouldn’t you use an M1 series Mac for?

For the great majority of Mac users, M1 series Macs are a big step forward. But some users want the impossible. What can’t M1 Macs do?

February 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

LockRattler 4.32 fixes issues on M1 Macs

Fixes a bug which could incorrectly report the SSV was disabled on M1 Macs, and improves reporting of M1 Platform Security on non-English systems.

January 31, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

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