Why pay an extra $600 for a 2 TB internal SSD, after all fast external SSDs are cheaper. Maybe you need to check whether disk performance becomes a rate-limiting factor.
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The macOS 15.2 update includes the second phase of AI support for Apple silicon Macs, introducing the Image […]
As eagerly anticipated, Apple has released the update to macOS 15.2 Sequoia, together with security updates to bring […]
The CPU view in Activity Monitor is the starting point for tuning the performance of software. Here are its virtues, and a few vices to beware of when using it.
Discovering whether using more threads makes a task faster gives insight into where its performance is limited. How to use a VM to investigate this.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 285. Here are my solutions to them. 1: This […]
What TB5 actually provides in its Symmetric and Asymmetric modes, why those are most important to connect Mac to dock or hub, and how that can go wrong.
Tuning your Mac for performance can be a good investment of time. Beware of general benchmarks, though, and develop your own objective measurements. Then identify the rate-limiting step methodically, so you can address that.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: This Scot […]
A/UX was released for the Mac II in 1988, then in 1993 Apple changed course with a series of servers, before Mac OS X Server in 1999 and its first Xserves in 2002.
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