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Last Week on My Mac: Marking time

Why did Apple release three public betas in a week – macOS 12.0, 11.6.1 and Catalina Security Update 2021-007?

October 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

How Monterey changes Apple Silicon Recovery

Soon M1 Macs will be able to boot from two major versions of macOS, and with new models coming, users are going to have more complex systems. How will Recovery cope?

September 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to run commands and scripts on Efficiency cores

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Although there doesn’t appear to be any straightforward way to run command tools or scripts only on Efficiency cores, there are ways and means.

September 14, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: When we’re almost twelve

Apple’s release season opens on Tuesday. But what’s happening with Monterey – is it going to be complete and ready, or full of beta-features?

September 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: macOS scheduled background activities

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Prior to 10.4, Mac OS X used cron, then scheduling became part of the job of launchd. Later Apple added a new subsystem, Duet Activity Scheduler, which continues to evolve.

September 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Hurricane and Icestorm

Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) can bring great economy in power and heat production. So why don’t we make better use of it on M1 Macs?

September 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

M1 Icestorm cores can still perform very well

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What are the penalties in real-world use for running your code on Icestorm cores, using around 10% of the power used by Firestorms?

September 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to recover a Mac from a kernel panic

Recovering from one regular panic should be straightforward. But what if it’s a boot loop, in which your Mac tries to start up, panics, restarts, in an endless loop? Don’t panic: here are the solutions.

August 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Queue-jumping, hints and deep integration

The cores in the M1 and the chip itself are thoroughly Apple designs, and work hand-in-glove with macOS using techniques like out-of-order execution and hints to optimise performance.

August 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: System Management Controller (SMC)

On Intel Macs, resetting the SMC was a universal panacea until the T2 came along. What can we do instead with an M1 Mac?

August 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

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