Are you intending to upgrade to Tahoe on Monday? Or to Sequoia or Sonoma? Are you ready to cope with what could go wrong? Here are some tips to help you prepare.
T2
Originally the ‘security enclave’, and subject of a series of patents, it was introduced in the iPhone 5s in 2013, then the T2 in 2017, and blossomed in M-series Macs from 2020.
The panic log tells you it was a SEP Panic. What’s the SEP, and how is this different from any other panic? And what should you do about it?
If you’re still using an Intel Mac, do you know when its macOS support will end? Is it worth upgrading any more when most of the new features are for Apple silicon Macs?
68K to PowerPC in 1994-1998, on to Intel in 2006-2009, and to Apple silicon from 2020. The 68K emulator, Rosetta, and Rosetta 2 that enabled backward compatibility.
From the original Macintosh 128K in 1984, through the divergence into SE and Mac II, then the unique Twentieth Anniversary Mac, to the first iMac in 1998, and its successors.
A round-up of firmware updates across 15.4, 14.7.5 and 13.7.5, prospects for future macOS and firmware updates, and problems updating to 15.4.
T2 Macs updated to 15.3.2 should have a newer firmware version than those who installed the Safari update for Sonoma or Ventura, but what is 14.7.5 and 13.7.5? Time to deconfuse.
Two important catches that can cause a macOS installation to fail in Apple silicon: using the DFU port, and not setting up ownership correctly. Both are explained here.
Some support USB4, others don’t. Some share the controller, others don’t. Some support DFU mode but then can’t be used to create a bootable external disk on Apple silicon.
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