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Viable now supports shared folders, iCloud and more in beta 5

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Now fully supports shared folders, on Ventura hosts running Ventura in a VM. This gives access to faster storage, and to iCloud Drive as well.

December 6, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: The mobile virtual Mac

Just 4 cores and 16 GB of memory were used for the virtual machine to run Xcode and build apps successfully, but only for local testing.

December 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

Tracking swap space: is it wearing out your SSD?

In extreme cases, excessive use of swap space on an internal SSD could lead to its premature death, and the end of life for that Mac. How could you assess that?

December 2, 2022 Macs, Technology

Disk performance of lightweight macOS VMs on Apple silicon

Writing to the Data volume in a VM is dismally slow. Is using shared storage any quicker? What happens when you copy a VM to an external SSD, or to another Mac?

December 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

Can you game core allocation on Apple silicon?

Some threads are set to run in the background, and get allocated to the E cores. Could you run them in a VM, and effectively promote them to run on P cores instead?

November 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Virtualisation and Rosetta 2

Ventura can use Rosetta 2 to translate Intel binaries inside an ARM-native virtualised Linux. The impact and importance of this is explained.

June 11, 2022 Macs, Technology

Knowing what not to back up, and how

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Don’t clutter your backups with files you’d never want to restore. Here are five methods to exclude items from Time Machine backups to keep them leaner.

August 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

How big should the memory and SSD be in your next M1 Mac?

With Intel Macs, we’ve often bought as little RAM and storage as is essential, and enhanced or upgraded using third-party products. Does this work with Apple Silicon models?

March 26, 2021 General

Imaging APFS storage in Disk Utility, and size of the VM volume

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Disk Utility can’t image APFS volumes, and normally returns an error if you try to image a container. Here’s the workaround.

September 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Protecting yourself against malware

Use the most recent macOS possible, don’t disable protection, beware of links, if you have to live dangerously, use a VM, and remove Flash now. Practical tips for all.

July 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

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