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Last Week on My Mac: Useless information

You can find out which EFI version your Mac is running, but how do you know whether that’s current, or old and vulnerable?

July 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Legacy Software is doubly wrong

How reliably does Legacy Software detect 64-bit compatible upgrades? For some apps, it doesn’t notice at all, it appears, and continues to give wrong information.

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Struggling with macOS 10.15 already

How to check whether an app, or other executable code, is 64-bit. It wasn’t an easy task despite the tools that macOS provides.

April 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Legacy Software isn’t wrong, it’s just a bit slow

Have you given up with the Legacy Software section in System Information? It’s getting more useful, and probably an escalating nudge on the part of Apple. Here’s why.

January 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Are we ready to drop 32-bit code yet?

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We are warned that a future release of macOS will not run old 32-bit software. Should we worry? How to find out the scale of your problem.

November 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s many software updates

There’s a very long list of macOS features which are now updated automatically. Advice on how you should configure the Software Update pane and more. Look out for macOS 10.14.1 soon.

October 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Don’t believe System Information’s Legacy Software

Mojave’s new feature to show ‘Legacy Software’ is far from complete, and thoroughly misleading.

October 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

How can you tell whether it is a hard drive or an SSD?

Older external hard drives were large, noisy, and required power. New ones are just like SSDs. So how can you tell them apart?

February 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

Choosing and Using Peripheral Buses

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Out with USB 2 and in with USB 3; out with FireWire and in with Thunderbolt, then Thunderbolt 2. But which should you choose to use, and how?

April 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

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