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Can you game core allocation on Apple silicon?

Some threads are set to run in the background, and get allocated to the E cores. Could you run them in a VM, and effectively promote them to run on P cores instead?

November 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: I told you so!

Nearly 6 months ago, many thought the M2 Pro and Max would come in Macs in the autumn of this year. So why hasn’t Apple released them yet?

November 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting two Apple silicon Macs from one external disk

How can you set up a single external bootable disk to start up two different Apple silicon Macs, maybe one in the office and the other at home?

November 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Which external disk?

Overall summary of a year’s testing external hard disks and SSDs ranging in cost from $50 to more than $200 per TB. Which is best?

November 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting macOS on Apple silicon: Multiple boot disks

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How Apple silicon Macs create LocalPolicy to allow another boot volume group to be used, the problems that can occur, and how to investigate them.

November 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting macOS on Apple silicon: LocalPolicy

To understand what might go wrong when trying to boot an Apple silicon Mac from an external disk, start with LocalPolicy: what it is, and how it works.

November 21, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Some boot, but others don’t

Why can some with Apple silicon Macs create and boot from external disks, while others seem doomed to failure?

November 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Lightweight virtualisation in Ventura

How lightweight virtualisation of macOS and Linux has improved in Ventura, and what hasn’t changed.

November 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

How does Ventura update faster? Inside the macOS update process

Three phases of updating, download, preparation and installation, are now fully integrated. They also involve updating Cryptexes, as revealed in the log.

November 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

What makes an external disk bootable?

This has changed greatly over the last few versions of macOS, and differs between different types of Mac. Here’s an outline.

November 12, 2022 Macs, Technology

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