A new version of Mints adds the ability to view versions of installed firmware and recovery systems, valuable particularly for Apple silicon Macs.
Apple silicon
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.
How to interpret various measurements reported in Activity Monitor, from % CPU to Energy Impact, and how they can be compared across different Macs.
macOS Monterey is the first version with support for lightweight virtualisation on Apple silicon. Here are its greatest limitations, which make it look more like a dress rehearsal.
All about memory: different types, Unified Memory, Mach zones and the kernel, and how to manage system memory problems.
How many macOS guests can lightweight virtualisation run at a time, and can it nest them, running a macOS guest in a macOS VM?
This new version of Viable uses HiDPI in Displays to create a crisp scalable virtual display as good as you’ll get from a Retina display. Here’s how.
