There’s a fundamental difference in the way that Intel and M1 Macs store and load their ‘firmware’, which enables the M1 Mac to load and run difference versions of iBoot.
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I hope that you enjoyed this Christmas’s Mac Riddles, episode 131. Here are my solutions to them. 1: […]
Have you got problems backing up to your NAS? Here is a series of four simple tests to perform to give clear insights and help you tune its performance.
Among the most useful are Archive Utility, now including Apple Archive compression, and Storage Management. But Network Utility is now non-functional.
in Mac OS 8 and 9, you could patch the system direct. OS X was harder, and became sprawling and interdependent, encouraging users to reinstall macOS. That has now ended with the introduction of the SSV.
Here’s a special Christmas edition of riddles to entertain you through what I hope is a long weekend […]
The first version of its predecessor, NetInfo, also handled DNS lookups. When they failed, users found they were locked out of everything else. This has improved!
Accessing information about you as a user and a great deal more, using the Advanced Options dialog for user accounts, and Directory Utility.
If you want to check out your Mac’s Wi-Fi connection, Wireless Diagnostics is ideal. It’ll show you signal dropouts and give its opinion.
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