P cores are conventional in that they can deliver excellent performance at maximum frequency, but with high power use. E cores may take 4 times as long for a task, but use less than a third of the energy.
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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.
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…
Over its year as the current version of macOS, how big were Monterey’s updates? Did they improve over those of Big Big Sur, and make updating any easier?
Apple has just pushed its regular fortnightly update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or […]
In Monterey, the size of macOS updates has been steadily shrinking. Ventura brings RSRs, which should be small patches to fix security bugs without fuss. Here are the details.
How important is Touch ID and other biometric authentication to Passkeys, and wouldn’t it be better to run both passwords and Passkeys side-by-side?
Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]
Alongside iOS 16, Apple has just released security updates to Monterey, bringing it to version 12.6, and Big […]
Is the next Apple Event in October, for the release of Ventura, and maybe more Apple silicon Macs? What’s going to be missing from macOS 13, and what happens to Catalina now?
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