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Last Week on My Mac: A Christmas Core Carol

Apple’s first quad-core chip, the A10 launched 5 years ago, had 2 P and 2 E cores, but could only run one type of core at a time. We’ve come a long way since then.

December 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Sailing by: yachts in paintings 1

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In 1826, the world’s first sailing regatta for leisure craft was held. Twenty-five years later, the America’s Cup was inaugurated. Paintings show the rising popularity of yachting.

December 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 128

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A roll of […]

December 4, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Disk free space

Confused by this on APFS? So you should be, as it’s complicated by features like snapshots, sparse files, and the file system itself. There’s no single figure.

December 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 8 Tragedy, Orestes 2

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Having murdered his own mother in revenge for her murder of Agamemnon, Orestes is hounded down and driven mad by the Furies.

December 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

What to do when iCloud gets stuck

Understanding how iCloud works, and how files can be downloaded or evicted. Basic tests which are essential preliminaries, and using Cirrus to help.

December 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

Characters in Painted Stories: 7 Tragedy, Orestes 1

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The story of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War, who was murdered by his wife.

December 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

What to do when your Mac slows to a crawl

If your Mac slows to a crawl, don’t just reboot it. Here’s how to discover what the likely cause is, and a structured approach to recovery.

December 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 0 Artists and contents

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List of all the artists and subjects covered in this series, with brief summary of each artist, sample painting, and links.

December 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Comparing performance of M1 chips: 3 P and E

Obtaining estimates for individual P and E core performance of processes run mainly in an ALU and those using floating-point and SIMD gives further insight and confirms the cores haven’t changed from M1 to M1 Pro.

December 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

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