It’s time to review old kernel extensions, and uninstall those no longer needed. Here’s how to do that, using uninstallers or manually.
Intel
From the first 8 MHz Motorola 68000, through PowerPCs reaching 2.5 GHz and more in up to 4 cores, and Intel x86 with up to 28 cores, to Apple’s M4 Max with 12 P cores at 4.5 GHz.
How Intel Macs without a T2 chip boot, and how Secure Boot works in those with T2 or Apple silicon chips. How the latter can still enjoy Secure Boot when starting up from an external disk.
How long does Apple continue to provide firmware updates for a model once it has been introduced? Results from 40 different models since 2009.
All about Mac firmware, from PowerPC Open Firmware to Apple silicon’s LLB and iBoot, and what the rules are for updating firmware.
When will we learn about macOS 15? What important changes will it bring? When will the public beta be available? Will there be any new Macs?
Two watersheds that could occur in macOS 15: that it only supports Macs with Apple chips including an Arm processor, and that it opens access to older versions of macOS on Apple silicon.
The big question for WWDC is how Apple is going to put more distance between features for Intel and Apple silicon Macs? Here are some suggestions.
Help has been in steady decline since macOS 10.13. More recently, when you open a Help book on an Intel Mac it may get buried, but it doesn’t on M-series Macs. Why?
Why an Intel Mac’s up to 40 Gb/s from Thunderbolt 3 is less than an Apple silicon Mac’s up to 40 Gb/s from USB4, and how you can benefit from it.
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