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If you’re using Catalina or Big Sur, you should by now only be obtaining apps from four sources: […]
Processors haven’t just increased in speed and packed more transistors into a smaller space. Features such as the Neural Engine in the M1 show Apple is moving in a different direction.
Can M1 Macs really defy the laws of physics and read files from SSD at around 12 GB/s? Or are their performance improvements more modest?
Using 140 files of sizes 10 KB – 2 GB, the M1 read files significantly faster than a T2 Mac, but the latter wrote files slightly quicker. Highest read rate on the M1 was 10.8 GB/s, which seems almost incredible.
Shipping the M1 Macs has been a milestone, although how you interpret that depends on whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Apple released macOS Big Sur 11.1 on 14 December. Although yesterday it finally posted standalone installers for the […]
The macOS 11.1 update is substantial, but by no means as extensive as some of its x.1 predecessors. […]
Apple has just released Big Sur version 11.1, together with security updates for Catalina and Mojave, which are […]
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