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Making Apple silicon faster: 2 Multithreading

The general rule for allocating threads to P and E cores according to their QoS, with fine controls such as Game Mode, and frequency control.

June 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

Making Apple silicon faster: 1 Threads and tasks

Understanding terms, including process, thread and task. How the assigned Quality of Service, or QoS, is used to determine how threads are allocated to cores.

June 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

How Sequoia changes virtualisation on Apple silicon

Sequoia’s macOS VMs and Apple ID, USB storage and other devices, number of concurrent VMs, nested virtualisation, and how to run Sequoia beta in a VM on Sonoma.

June 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac enclaves and exclaves

T1 and T2 chips in Intel Macs, integral in M-series chips, used in Sequoia’s virtual machines at last, and an essential feature in Private Cloud Compute.

June 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

The biggest change coming isn’t in macOS 15

Swift 6 is the first major version for 5 years, and features structured concurrency that will change software for macOS over the coming years.

June 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

Why you shouldn’t try cloning your Apple silicon Mac’s startup disk

For 18 years, cloning a boot disk was popular and effective. It was even used as a way of defragmenting free space in housekeeping. Why doesn’t it work with Apple’s new Macs?

June 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Looking back from the future

Two watersheds that could occur in macOS 15: that it only supports Macs with Apple chips including an Arm processor, and that it opens access to older versions of macOS on Apple silicon.

June 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Will your encrypted data be safe in future?

How will quantum cryptography and the ease with which it should break current methods of encryption, affect the security of data on my Mac?

May 28, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why replace your T2 Mac?

The big question for WWDC is how Apple is going to put more distance between features for Intel and Apple silicon Macs? Here are some suggestions.

May 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

How secure is Secure Erase (EACAS)?

Could old images be retained on a device or your Mac after you had securely erased it using Erase Assistant?

May 23, 2024 Macs, Technology

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