Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Hidden folder […]
Category Archive: Technology
From the first 8 MHz Motorola 68000, through PowerPCs reaching 2.5 GHz and more in up to 4 cores, and Intel x86 with up to 28 cores, to Apple’s M4 Max with 12 P cores at 4.5 GHz.
You use Spotlight to search for something you’re sure is there, but it can’t find it. Here are some methods to discover why that search failed.
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?
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.
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