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How big should the memory and SSD be in your next M1 Mac?

With Intel Macs, we’ve often bought as little RAM and storage as is essential, and enhanced or upgraded using third-party products. Does this work with Apple Silicon models?

March 26, 2021 General

Painting Within Tent: The Prince in Brazil

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In two early expeditions to the Americas, he gathered great amounts of information about flora and fauna, and the ethnography of indigenous peoples.

March 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine to APFS: Maintenance and repair

Given their very different structure, backups on APFS disks shouldn’t require routine maintenance. Checking and repair is performed using Disk Utility.

March 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote: 2 Those books are to be burnt

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In which Don Quixote thinks he stopped a youth being beaten, gets a beating himself, and ends up back in his bed while his priest sets about burning his library.

March 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The trouble with snapshots: how can you copy them?

Until Big Sur started backing up to snapshots on APFS, there was little interest in being able to copy snapshots. Now we realise that we can’t.

March 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

The Last History Painter: In memoriam Jean-Paul Laurens 2

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More extraordinary tales from French and European history told in his paintings.

March 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to update your Mac’s firmware

iMac17,1 and other Mac models which don’t update their firmware properly can be brought fully up to date. What’s more, Apple Support is now reluctantly sorting this out those who persist with them.

March 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

The Last History Painter: In memoriam Jean-Paul Laurens 1

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He was probably the last traditional history painter in Europe. This selection of his works is accompanied by full explanations of the history behind each.

March 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 91

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 91. Here are my solutions to them. 1: I […]

March 22, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: Backup structure and access

Unlike HFS+ backups, those on APFS volumes look different depending on how you try to access them. What you see in the Finder is an illusion not available to other apps.

March 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

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