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macOS 10.14

Biggest Sur by far

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With Big Sur 11.6 reaching the end of the year’s cycle, it’s time to take stock of just how much we had to download to keep it up to date.

September 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has released standalone updaters for 10.14 and 10.15 Security Updates

Apple has today, 5 August, released standalone updaters for the last two Security Updates, which were first released […]

August 5, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Squeezing a thimbleful of update into a ten-gallon can

In macOS 11.5.1, Apple has squeezed a thimbleful of a patch into a ten-gallon can of update, more than 99% of which is overhead.

August 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Six years on from Yosemite to Big Sur

Haven’t Macs and macOS changed over the last six years? Here are fictitious diary entries to illustrate the deep-seated changes.

July 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has now released Big Sur 11.5 update, and SUs for 10.14 and 10.15

Apple has just released the 11.5 update to macOS Big Sur. It’s of modest size, weighing in at […]

July 21, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has finally posted standalone updaters for Catalina and Mojave Security Updates

Apple has today posted standalone updaters for its Security Updates released for Catalina and Mojave over a week […]

June 2, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Summary of important security fixes in macOS

A lot has changed in recent versions of macOS over the last couple of weeks. This is a […]

May 5, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pulled Safari 14.1 update for Mojave and Catalina (updated)

Included in the macOS updates this week was Safari version 14.1 for Mojave and Catalina (this was also […]

April 30, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Big Sur 11.3 update

Apple has just released the update to Big Sur 11.3. It’s huge: for M1 Macs, it weighs in […]

April 26, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Hyperinflation: comparing update sizes from Mojave to Big Sur

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Total updates required by 10.14 were 21.5 GB in 10 updates; for 10.15, those rose to 32.2 GB in 12 updates. For M1 Macs, Big Sur has already required 22.3 GB in 6 updates, and it hasn’t got to version 11.3 yet.

March 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

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