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Summary of macOS VM performance on Apple silicon Macs

Virtualisation of macOS on Apple silicon does deliver performance that’s impressively close to that of the host. Here are the figures to demonstrate it.

February 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

PDF, Live Text and Spotlight: troubled relationships

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Searching the text content of PDF documents often doesn’t work well, sometimes not at all. And recovering what you can see is text can also fail miserably.

February 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Serious bugs fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.3

Sparse bundle passwords, shared folders in macOS VMs, and security updates for VMs, are all important fixes. But none for the Finder.

January 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

T2M2 should now work better with macOS 11-13 and daily backups

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You can disable its checks of scheduling, and it better analyses Speed in Big Sur, and backups in macOS 11-14.

January 23, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

What has changed in Sonoma 14.3?

The update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3 isn’t large, although it has some compelling security content […]

January 22, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.3, and security updates for Ventura and Monterey

Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.3, and security updates for Ventura […]

January 22, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine in Sonoma: Rotating backups and NAS

Analysis of T2M2’s report from rotating Time Machine backups, including the first full backup made to a NAS.

January 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: detection and diagnosis with T2M2

How to read T2M2’s report on your Time Machine backups, interpret the results, and discover where any problems are occurring.

January 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing systems from Mojave to Sonoma

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Which single folder in /System/Library contains the most bundles? Why did the number of kernel extensions in macOS soar from 535 to 788 in less than 2 months?

January 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Catching up with Time Machine

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T2M2 is nearly 7 years old, and has already found at least two bugs in Time Machine. Here’s why it’s so hard to get it to work perfectly with each version of macOS.

January 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

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