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7 min read 2022-05-26 13:30:00

How macOS copes with heavy workloads on M1 cores

So far I’ve looked at the CPU cores in M1 series chips using largely synthetic workloads, either generated using tight loops of assembly code in

3 min read 2022-05-25 13:30:00

We’ve recently had an enormous amount of discussion about the performance of external SSDs. One issue that we’ve only touched upon is whether

6 min read 2022-05-24 18:30:00

I was giving my PowerPoint presentation in a full dress rehearsal for a VIP visit, in front of The Big Boss. Predictably, when it came to display a

4 min read 2022-05-24 13:30:00

On 26 February 2016, Apple pushed an update to the Incompatible Kernel Extension which came with a bug blocking the loading of the kernel extension

5 min read 2022-05-23 13:30:00

There was a time when the Displays pane had two tabs, Display and Color. Select the latter, and you could choose a colour profile for that display or

4 min read 2022-05-22 14:00:00

When Apple developed APFS, it decided neither to make it open source, nor to document it sufficiently to help third parties develop their own

3 min read 2022-05-21 14:00:00

Machine translation (MT) has been one of the grand problems in computing for the last seventy years. The dream that you could instantly read an

5 min read 2022-05-20 13:30:00

For many Mac users, the only external disk connected to your Mac stores its backups. There are times when it would be really handy if you could use

3 min read 2022-05-19 13:30:00

It’s exactly six months since I last looked at the many problems plaguing Monterey’s Disk Utility. That was in macOS 12.0.1. Earlier this week,

4 min read 2022-05-18 13:30:00

This has become one of the most popular questions put to me since the arrival of APFS, whether in specifying internal storage for a new Mac, or when

2 min read 2022-05-17 13:30:00

For all the great things about SSDs, they’re still expensive. There are more than half a dozen excellent 2 TB hard disks available for less than

2 min read 2022-05-17 03:26:11

The update to bring Monterey to version 12.4 is substantial, and brings many changes across macOS. Apple’s release notes (which should soon appear

4 min read 2022-05-16 13:30:00

Monterey currently supports two native macOS file systems for general use: Macintosh Extended (HFS+) and Apple File System (APFS). It’s common

4 min read 2022-05-15 14:00:00

Don’t be put off by its title: Apple Platform Security Guide is mandatory reading for all advanced Mac Users, and the only way we get to learn

5 min read 2022-05-14 14:00:00

The basic idea behind data compression is really simple. Look in one of the cupboards in your kitchen. If you’re neat and tidy and have space to