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Last Week on My Mac: The slim hope of recovery

Monterey changes the way that Recovery works on M1 Macs, making them more like Intel Macs by using a paired Recovery volume. But that could spell trouble.

May 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

May 12, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Deleting the SSV to free space

The industry has cut out the middleman and destroyed the support pyramid, in which trained staff in dealers addressed minor issues.

May 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

Mac Studio Max and Studio Display: impressions and future

Can you replace an iMac Pro with a Mac Studio Max and Studio Display? For the last month I’ve been assessing this, and here’s my answer in full.

May 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Do M2 Macs need better storage support?

Thunderbolt 5 isn’t available yet, and in any case will probably offer no more than 6 GB/s. So what is the way ahead for Apple in its successors to its M1 series chips?

May 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.93, dated […]

April 29, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2

It’s limited to 5 Gb/s, giving read rates of about 400 MB/s and writes at about 430 MB/s. Fine for Time Machine backups, but bad with NVMe drives.

April 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: kextermination is coming

Looking forward to the time when third-party kexts are finally banished from macOS, and replaced by modern system extensions, and their siblings.

April 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why M1 Macs don’t have full support for USB-C

M1 Macs don’t support SMART monitoring over USB-C, forcing us to choose between Full Security without SMART, or Reduced Security with SMART support.

April 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

LockRattler version 4.33 now reports Studio Display firmware version

New version now looks for connected Studio Displays and reports the firmware version of the first it finds.

April 8, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

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