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El Capitan 10.11.4 freezes are not confined to certain MacBook Pros

Has your Mac been freezing occasionally since updating to OS X 10.11.4? You are not alone, it seems.

May 15, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

A complete freeze, restart, and lockout

Things were not looking good: my Mac would not start up, and the RAID would not shut down. Stalemate.

April 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

Bug in El Capitan: Power management ignores setting to not sleep hard disks

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On some iMacs at least, the settings in Energy Saver are partly ignored. This must be a bug.

March 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple brought my iMac to its knees, with a broken security update

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I cannot remember ever wishing that I did not use Macs, but unless Apple sorts itself out, I will.

February 29, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: I’d love the definition of a Retina display, but isn’t it slow?

Would Finale or other apps suffer a big performance hit when running on a Retina 5K display?

January 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple’s 27″ Retina 5K iMac display: small quirks, gorgeous image

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If you haven’t seen or used Apple’s 27″ Retina 5K display, you ought to. It’s the best display that I have used.

January 2, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Apple and my dead iMac 27″

It was a graphics card failure, after all. And the cost? Ask Apple nicely…

December 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Lead-free graphics cards: a problem?

How a well-intended ban to limit lead pollution could end up making other toxicity worse.

December 20, 2015 Macs, Technology

Made it: running on a new iMac

The trials, tribulations, and rewards of being forced to switch to a new iMac. With some performance insights too.

December 17, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Eclectic Light flickers: my iMac might be dead

You know, from soon after getting up, that some days are not going to be easy. Yesterday was […]

December 13, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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