What separates System and Data volumes, and how does macOS know they’re part of a boot volume group? What distinguished backup volumes, and what is Sidecar?
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In-core performance compared across P and E cores in M1, M3 and M4 chips shows substantial performance improvements, particularly in vector and matrix computation.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Apple has just released an update to macOS Sequoia, bringing it to version 15.1.1, build 24B91 (all Macs […]
Why Spotlight can now take a long time building and updating its volume indexes. Understand when forcing them to be rebuilt is a good idea, and when it isn’t.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 282. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Scrambled […]
Less glamorous than the P cores, E cores are used to run background threads. Details of their architecture, how threads are managed on them and their efficiency.
Are you worried about your Mac maxing out its E cores after starting up in Sequoia? There may be nothing wrong about this, as explained here.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Scrambled coach […]
ADB, which could fry your Mac’s motherboard iif you weren’t careful, USB that opened up a new world of different cables and adaptors, and wireless with Bluetooth.
The Eclectic Light Company 