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Category Archive: Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Health & 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.

November 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 282

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Scrambled coach […]

November 16, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac ports – low speed

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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.

November 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

Should you migrate to your new Mac, and when?

Setting a new (or pre-owned) Mac up can be quick and easy when you use Migration Assistant. When is best, what should you migrate from, and do you need iCloud to help?

November 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

M4 Macs can’t virtualise older macOS

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A bug, most probably in the early part of kernel boot in guest macOS, prevents M4 Macs virtualising macOS prior to 13.4.

November 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

Inside M4 chips: P cores hosting a VM

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macOS virtual machines are preferentially run on P cores. Details on their performance, core allocation, frequencies and power use/

November 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

November 12, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Migrating to a new Mac, and claiming Time Machine backups

When and how to use Migration Assistant to move apps, settings and documents to a new or previously owned Mac. Also how a Mac can claim an old Mac’s backups.

November 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 281

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 281. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Second […]

November 11, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Inside M4 chips: P cores

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Details of their frequency, ISA, power use, and how macOS allocates threads to P cores and relocates them. Supported by data from an M4 Pro.

November 11, 2024 Macs, Technology

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