A popular insurance when upgrading to a new version of macOS: how to keep your Mac running both Monterey and Ventura. Covers all models including M-series.
Apple silicon
An accessible account of how Apple silicon chips use cores of two different types to do their work, and how to get the best from them as a user. The start…
Running a Mac as a server supports all the features of HFS+ and APFS, services such as Content Caching, and spares us from learning Linux. But does it work?
Differences between the creation and installation of macOS and Linux VMs explained. A new beta-release of Liviable to create and run GUI Linux on Ventura.
If you duplicate or clone a macOS VM, you risk running two with the same ID. Here’s a new version of Viable to help make VMs with the same Machine ID.
A new version of Mints adds the ability to view versions of installed firmware and recovery systems, valuable particularly for Apple silicon Macs.
I was browsing thousands of log entries from Software Update and its relatives when something caught my eye. Here’s what became of it.
How to discover the version of ‘fallback’ Recovery, Bridge versions of T2 chips, and a whole lot more info about a Mac. And a bonus for Ventura.
Which to use to virtualise Monterey on an Apple silicon Mac: Parallels Desktop, UTM or VirtualBuddy? A survey of their strengths and problems.
It’s a strange coincidence that Intel and Microsoft came up with similar hardware of P and E core types in a SoC, and identical terminology for thread allocation using QoS.
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