By segregating macOS background tasks on Efficiency cores, M1 Macs can run user apps unfettered on their Performance cores. And that feels really fast.
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In Big Sur, Apple is trying to change our update habits, getting us all to update early, and run only the latest release of macOS. Its campaign uses installer behaviour, mass psychology, and boot security.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Open, untie […]
How boot security has changed in the M1 Mac. What it allows you to do, and how it restores flexibility and versatility of external boot disks.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
How the M1’s asymmetric cores can run background tasks more efficiently, or deliver high performance, according to Quality of Service.
Big Sur 11.3 fixed a bug which stopped indexing of the contents of RTF files. Here’s how to ensure all your RTFs are now accessible in Spotlight searches.
How an M1 Mac can start up from an external bootable disk, and how that can fail. All about boot security policy, and how that’s applied.
How changing a volume’s boot policy can let you boot in older macOS, and update, if you wish. For anyone who uses external bootable disks with an M1 Mac.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 98. Here are my solutions to them. 1: An […]
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