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Preparing your Mac for Trade In or passing on

If you plan to trade in or pass on your old Mac when you upgrade to a new one, there are pitfalls in ensuring you don’t lose any data, while ensuring your old Mac is completely wiped.

July 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

What can you do with Time Machine backups on APFS?

When Time Machine makes its backups to APFS storage, just what can and can’t you do? How can you prevent large temporary files from stealing space on storage?

July 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Welcome to your new M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max Mac

Your brand new M1 Mac is now unboxed. What next? Here’s a brief guide for anyone new to M1 Macs, which should spare you time and effort.

October 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Migrating to a new Mac

When should you migrate to your new Mac, and how to do it? Migration Assistant explored and explained in detail.

October 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 8 The problem of updating firmware

Setting up a new or repurposed Mac may involve updating its firmware – EFI, SMC, and T2 chip if necessary. You can’t do that using imaging, but must run an Apple system installer or updater.

February 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 7 Choices diagrammed

A table showing the main choices when using System Migration, and more detail on how the process works.

January 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why does macOS keep downloading the incompatible app list?

The mystery of the recurrent silent installation is solved, plus a fascinating list of macOS system sizes from 10.6.8 to 10.14. Do they keep growing?

January 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 6 Fitting a quart into a pint pot

With Apple’s SSD prices so high, you may for the first time have less internal storage in your new Mac than your old one. Tips to help you cope.

December 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 5 Examples

Three workthroughs considering options and issues in migrating to a new Mac, with info on late migration, macOS upgrading, and Thunderbolt adaptors.

December 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 4 Test, tweak, Time Machine

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More work to be done before your migration is fully complete: check your workflows, key security settings, disk health, licensing, backups.

December 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

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