Essential facts about the firmware in your Mac, how it’s updated, and which version you should be running. With links to more detailed articles.
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Provision of maintenance procedures and tools is at the heart of software engineering, but not in macOS.
macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update is promised to address two problems: some Macs running Virtual Machines under VMWare […]
What is wrong with this iMac, which has such a struggle updating its firmware? And why is Apple not acknowledging the problem?
Aim to fix longstanding failure to change version numbers after installing updates, and support Big Sur.
What do you know about the hidden and unmounted EFI partition on all the disks you use with your Mac? It could be very important.
If there’s one thing you don’t want to happen with any Mac with a T2 chip it’s a […]
The macOS 10.15.4 Supplemental Update released on 8 April 2020 isn’t a small update by any means, at […]
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