Why change the processors used in Macs, when all that will do is cause loads of compatibility problems? Some thoughts on how important this could be.
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What should you do when you try to restart in Diagnostics Mode and can’t? And how to check and restore a Recovery partition.
Have you lost any precious files lately? Old movies of your kids when they were young, perhaps. Wouldn’t it be good to be able to recover them?
Wondering what happened to the iMac 2018 and the replacement for the 5 year-old Mac Pro? We should see them in 2019, inevitably with T2 chips.
How to prepare your Mac to pass on to a close relative, a purchaser, or even for recycling.
Don’t just throw it in a box and send it off: what happens if its internal storage is replaced or wiped? What about protecting sensitive files? Does a T2 chip make this difficult?
Apple’s latest Macs have T2 chips and SSDs which are not user-replaceable. Isn’t buying one courting with disaster?
Is the new Mac mini the best-performing for its cost? Does the new iPad Pro rival better desktop systems in benchmarks? Let’s look at those figures more carefully.
Desperately seeking a mid-range desktop Mac? Is the iMac out of date and overpriced, and that gap to the iMac Pro too great?
Apple doesn’t provide an official list of the current EFI firmware versions which should be installed on each […]
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