Central to the secure design of Apple silicon is Secure Boot, the intricate mechanism that ensures everything in […]
Apple silicon
From a boot loop to almost any other glitch that occurs after a macOS update, guidance as to how best to recover and fix it.
The spinning beachball, a juddery interface, and fans running full pelt: what’s CPU doing in Activity Monitor, and what should you do about it?
Sometimes, a cold boot fixes problems not fixed by a simple restart. Why, and which problems is it better at fixing?
What’s the best option if you don’t have the luxury of running betas on a dedicated Mac? How to install and run them in a VM.
Apple needs to widen the gap between late Intel and Apple silicon Macs without locking Intel Macs out, mature Stage Manager, fix System Settings, and more.
Since November 2020, every T2 and Apple silicon Mac that has booted Big Sur or later in Full Security mode has check the integrity of its 9 GB SSV.
Some Intel Macs without T2 chips have firmware updates with last week’s security updates. Here are the details.
What to do when your Mac panics during booting, and enters a boot loop, or when it simply fails to get to the login window.
Is that Mac completely dead due to a severe failure, or could it just be in DFU mode? They aren’t easy to distinguish on most Macs.
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