Are you intending to upgrade to Tahoe on Monday? Or to Sequoia or Sonoma? Are you ready to cope with what could go wrong? Here are some tips to help you prepare.
Apple silicon
Why is tar so slow to create a tar.gzip archive on a fast Apple silicon Mac? Is it being run at low QoS on the E cores? An explanation.
If Visual Look Up is so easy and low-power for Apple silicon Macs, maybe Tahoe’s new Foundation Models will prove more challenging, and wake up the neural engine.
Using powermetrics and log entries, a single image was processed on an M4 Pro, with content analysis and object recognition and look-up. How much power and energy did that use?
Originally the ‘security enclave’, and subject of a series of patents, it was introduced in the iPhone 5s in 2013, then the T2 in 2017, and blossomed in M-series Macs from 2020.
Explains the sequence of events from Boot ROM to FileVault login, what storage is accessible at different times, and where the code is.
The panic log tells you it was a SEP Panic. What’s the SEP, and how is this different from any other panic? And what should you do about it?
How to check there’s no hardware problem, then use Restore in DFU mode to completely wipe internal storage, including firmware, and reset the NVRAM.
How to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process.
Gives the latest firmware versions for all Macs running the most recent supported version of macOS, and which are expected to change in the future.
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