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Explainer: Parallel computing

It delivers detailed weather forecasts for days in advance, and real-time manipulation of elaborate textured 3D models. But more mundane tasks may not get any quicker.

March 12, 2022 Macs, Technology

CPU percentage is misleading on M1 Macs

In Activity Monitor, % CPU isn’t on a scale of 0-100. In M1 Macs, it also makes no distinction between E and P cores, nor does it allow for their changing frequency.

February 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

WindowServer is hungry for memory on M1 Macs

Each additional Safari window increases WindowServer’s memory use by 1.7 MB on an Intel Mac, but 50 MB on an M1 Mac – thirty times more.

February 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

What shouldn’t you use an M1 series Mac for?

For the great majority of Mac users, M1 series Macs are a big step forward. But some users want the impossible. What can’t M1 Macs do?

February 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM)

How to discover what’s stored in your Mac’s NVRAM, how to reset it in Intel Macs, and how you can changes its variables.

January 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Did someone forget their password? Getting access to a locked Mac

Maybe you’ve just forgotten the password, or perhaps the owner/user of the Mac is no longer able to enter it. How to restore access to different models.

January 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

How macOS controls performance: QoS on Intel and M1 processors

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Running processes at different Quality of Service affects their performance differently on Intel and M1 Macs. This explains what happens.

January 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Vectors, Accelerate and poor performance on M1 Macs

Some apps and other code doesn’t appear to run faster on M1 chips, and some even runs more slowly. Could this be a result of it not using the best acceleration for vectors and matrices?

December 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Erase All Contents and Settings: prepare your Mac for disposal and more

Passing your Mac on to a new owner has got much easier and more reliable in Monterey – so long as it has got a T2 or M1 series chip.

November 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: chipsets and Fabric

From the IBM PC XT with its 10 MB hard disk to a SoC which moves data to its SSD at over 7 GB/s. How CPUs interface with peripherals.

November 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

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