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Powering your Mac: power filters and UPS

A UPS is essential for Macs without internal batteries, to ensure they can shut down in an orderly fashion when mains power is lost. Here’s how to choose one.

August 31, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mints can now reveal your Mac’s logic board ID

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This new version helps iMac17,1 owners discover the logic board ID, to help investigate their problems updating firmware.

September 23, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Did that Mac just restart itself? About kernel panics

What they are, how they’ve changed, how to work out what went wrong, and how to deal with them. No Mac should ever experience a single panic.

November 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

More About This Mac: where to find that UUID, MAC address, etc.

Extensive listing of places to find key information such as your User UUID/GUID, Ethernet MAC, model identifier, and much more.

September 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Does replacing internal storage cause EFI updating problems?

When you replace the internal disk fitted by Apple, some Macs seem to stop installing EFI firmware updates. Is there anything to be done?

July 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing diagnostics and Apple Hardware Test

What should you do when you try to restart in Diagnostics Mode and can’t? And how to check and restore a Recovery partition.

March 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Can you upgrade or repair a Mac with a T2 chip?

Apple’s latest Macs have T2 chips and SSDs which are not user-replaceable. Isn’t buying one courting with disaster?

November 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Before boot.efi: the Mac’s initial self-test routines

What happens in your Mac when you press the Power button? Before it loads the EFI firmware, it goes through self-testing, and initialising key chips.

August 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The UUID conspiracy

Should you worry about Apple and all those UUIDs? Some claim that they are being used to track you and what you do on your iPhone and Mac.

May 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Choosing drives: which type, manufacturer, and capacity?

SSD or hard disk? Western Digital, HGST or Seagate? Multiple smaller capacities, or one big disk?

September 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

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