Soon after Apple started delivering M1 Macs, users found that they couldn’t boot them from external disks. Six months later, this has largely been fixed. What went wrong?
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Overnight, Apple has pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
The Big Sur update to 11.4 is significantly smaller than that to 11.3, and its lists of changes […]
Apple has just released the update to bring Big Sur to version 11.4. This appears more modest in […]
We commonly suffer failures of the psychology of Mac performance, when system background tasks overwhelm the processor and bring the interface to a grinding halt
In Big Sur, Apple is trying to change our update habits, getting us all to update early, and run only the latest release of macOS. Its campaign uses installer behaviour, mass psychology, and boot security.
How boot security has changed in the M1 Mac. What it allows you to do, and how it restores flexibility and versatility of external boot disks.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
How ready are M1 Macs now for general use? There are still problems with docks, external boot disks, and using one external boot disk with multiple Macs.
A new tailor-made log view shows what’s happened in interactions with the App Store, and can give clues as to the cause of delays and failures.
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