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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

How to recover a Mac from a kernel panic

Recovering from one regular panic should be straightforward. But what if it’s a boot loop, in which your Mac tries to start up, panics, restarts, in an endless loop? Don’t panic: here are the solutions.

August 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Queue-jumping, hints and deep integration

The cores in the M1 and the chip itself are thoroughly Apple designs, and work hand-in-glove with macOS using techniques like out-of-order execution and hints to optimise performance.

August 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: System Management Controller (SMC)

On Intel Macs, resetting the SMC was a universal panacea until the T2 came along. What can we do instead with an M1 Mac?

August 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to create a bootable external disk in macOS 11 or 12

Complete step-by-step instructions for installing a new copy of macOS to an external disk, making it bootable. For Intel and M1 Macs of all flavours.

August 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Should you clean install Big Sur or Monterey?

Why would you want to go to the lengths of erasing your startup disk and installing a macOS upgrade clean? Here’s why, and how to do it.

August 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

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