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Last Week on My Mac: The evolution of Apple silicon

The M2 Pro and Max gain an extra two Efficiency cores, compared to their M1 equivalents. What effect will that have on their performance, and what of the M2 Ultra?

January 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Recovery mode problems and how to solve them

If there’s a problem, you may try Recovery mode. What do you do when that proves to be a problem? Solutions for Intel and Apple silicon Macs.

January 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Panaceas: which general fixes still work well?

Is reinstalling macOS still a useful solution to problems? What about installing macOS updates, or resetting the NVRAM and SMC?

December 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Rosetta 2

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Rosetta 2 is key feature for the transition to Apple silicon, and is also available to run Intel x86_64 binaries in virtual macOS and Linux (in Ventura).

December 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

Liviable now shares folders in Linux VMs, and should support Rosetta 2

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Now feature-complete with support for shared folders with the host Mac, and everything is in place for Rosetta 2 translation of x86_64 binaries within the VM.

December 9, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Viable now supports shared folders, iCloud and more in beta 5

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Now fully supports shared folders, on Ventura hosts running Ventura in a VM. This gives access to faster storage, and to iCloud Drive as well.

December 6, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

How much Unified memory does your Apple silicon Mac need?

With Unified memory, don’t you simply add the main and graphics memory sizes from your Intel Mac to determine how much your Apple silicon Mac needs?

November 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Can you game core allocation on Apple silicon?

Some threads are set to run in the background, and get allocated to the E cores. Could you run them in a VM, and effectively promote them to run on P cores instead?

November 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: I told you so!

Nearly 6 months ago, many thought the M2 Pro and Max would come in Macs in the autumn of this year. So why hasn’t Apple released them yet?

November 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting two Apple silicon Macs from one external disk

How can you set up a single external bootable disk to start up two different Apple silicon Macs, maybe one in the office and the other at home?

November 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

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