Refurb, from a reseller, or buy private? What to beware of, what to check, and how to ensure the Mac you buy won’t lock you out.
Category Archive: Technology
Looking ahead at likely dates of forthcoming updates to macOS over the next 6 months, when Sonoma loses security support, and the last new versions for Intel Macs. Now is the time to plan.
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5336. As usual it […]
New version can now save default substitutions. including Smart Quotes, Dashes and Links.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 353. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The future […]
For nearly 12 minutes, the progress bar was stuck at 98.6% complete and “about 5 minutes remaining”, and on many older Macs those lasted even longer. Did the update get stuck?
Why isn’t the progress bar for macOS updates better? Why can’t it estimate the whole time remaining to complete an update?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The future […]
macOS will delay disk and other input/output operations for background tasks like backing up. Is there any point in disabling that in an Apple silicon Mac to make backups faster?
In Ventura, VM disk performance was poor, with write speeds of 0.7 GB/s. How fast is it now in macOS 26.4, and how does using FileVault affect it? Plus a note on problems with BSIs in VMs.
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