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- Evaluating M3 Pro CPU Cores: General Performance https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/27/evaluating-m3-pro-cpu-cores-1-general-performance/ 58 comments
- How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people https://eclecticlight.co/2023/09/16/how-the-mac-didnt-bring-programming-to-the-people/ 266 comments
- Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly https://eclecticlight.co/2023/08/12/why-macos-anti-malware-scans-can-behave-oddly/ 43 comments
- How do you know when macOS detects and remediates malware? https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/04/how-do-you-know-when-macos-detects-and-remediates-malware/ 111 comments
- Monterey’s Finder Find memory leak may not be fixed https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/30/why-montereys-finder-find-memory-leak-may-not-be-fixed/ 54 comments
- Running tasks on E cores can use a third of the energy of P cores https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/03/running-tasks-on-e-cores-can-use-a-third-of-the-energy-of-p-cores/ 41 comments
- Booting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve https://eclecticlight.co/2022/04/19/booting-a-mac-studio-from-an-external-ssd-and-what-it-doesnt-solve/ 59 comments
- Why M1 Macs don’t have full support for USB-C https://eclecticlight.co/2022/04/10/last-week-on-my-mac-why-m1-macs-dont-have-full-support-for-usb-c/ 14 comments
- Whatever happened to QuickTime? https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/26/explainer-whatever-happened-to-quicktime/ 101 comments
- Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM? https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/20/last-week-on-my-mac-is-look-up-destined-for-csam/ 133 comments
- War in Ukraine: Marshall Mud is winning again https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/06/war-in-ukraine-marshall-mud-is-winning-again/ 16 comments
- How can you trust a disk to write data? https://eclecticlight.co/2022/02/18/how-can-you-trust-a-disk-to-write-data/ 34 comments
- When an M1 Mac mini is faster than an M1 Pro: contention and core allocation https://eclecticlight.co/2022/02/07/when-an-m1-mac-mini-is-faster-than-an-m1-pro-contention-and-core-allocation/ 28 comments
- How you can’t promote threads on an M1 https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/24/how-you-cant-promote-threads-on-an-m1/ 2 comments
- Explainer: .DS_Store Files https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/27/explainer-ds_store-files/ 90 comments
- Why reporting bugs to Apple may harm software quality https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/16/why-reporting-bugs-to-apple-may-harm-software-quality/ 12 comments
- Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/26/give-your-mac-imaginary-unlimited-storage-thanks-to-disk-utilitys-bug/ 62 comments
- Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books https://eclecticlight.co/2019/12/26/publishers-determined-to-kill-electronic-books/ 238 comments
- MacOS Unified Log: why, what and how https://eclecticlight.co/2018/03/19/macos-unified-log-1-why-what-and-how/ 3 comments
- Enduring file references in macOS https://eclecticlight.co/2018/03/11/last-week-on-my-mac-enduring-file-references-in-macos/ 27 comments
- The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra https://eclecticlight.co/2018/01/02/the-app-you-cant-trash-how-sip-is-broken-in-high-sierra/ 96 comments
Lobsters
- How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/ 15 comments mac
- Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/28/last-week-on-my-mac-users-are-losing-out-against-big-surs-sealed-system/ 21 comments mac
- Is Catalina a good upgrade yet? https://eclecticlight.co/2020/02/02/last-week-on-my-mac-is-catalina-a-good-upgrade-yet/ 34 comments mac
- We need to document macOS https://eclecticlight.co/2017/08/13/last-week-on-my-mac-we-need-to-document-macos/ 6 comments mac , practices
- APFS is currently unusable with most non-English languages https://eclecticlight.co/2017/04/06/apfs-is-currently-unusable-with-most-non-english-languages/ 2 comments ios
- How Game Mode manages CPU and GPU https://eclecticlight.co/2023/10/18/how-game-mode-manages-cpu-and-gpu/ 5 comments apple
- Last Week on My Mac: Is Look Up destined for CSAM? https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/20/last-week-on-my-mac-is-look-up-destined-for-csam/ 3 comments apple
- WindowServer is hungry for memory on M1 Macs https://eclecticlight.co/2022/02/22/windowserver-is-hungry-for-memory-on-m1-macs/ 7 comments apple
- When an M1 Mac mini is faster than an M1 Pro: contention and core allocation https://eclecticlight.co/2022/02/07/when-an-m1-mac-mini-is-faster-than-an-m1-pro-contention-and-core-allocation/ 6 comments hardware
- Power, frequency, management: how Icestorm (M1 efficiency cores) wins https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/03/power-frequency-management-how-m1-e-cores-win/ 18 comments apple
- Monterey’s memory leak is caused from a non-standard cursor size or colors, avoid it resetting the mouse option in Accessibility preferences https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/15/montereys-memory-leak-and-how-to-avoid-it/ 138 comments apple
- Disk Utility now has full features for managing snapshots https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/09/disk-utility-now-has-full-features-for-managing-snapshots/ 80 comments apple
- What’s in an M1 chip, and what does it do differently? https://eclecticlight.co/2021/08/24/whats-in-an-m1-chip-and-what-does-it-do-differently/ 46 comments apple
- How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it's about QoS https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/ 106 comments apple
- What unified memory means for Apple Silicon macs https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/11/how-unified-memory-blows-the-socs-off-the-m1-macs/ 49 comments apple
- Time Machine in Catalina 10.15.3 has serious bugs https://eclecticlight.co/2020/02/12/time-machine-in-catalina-10-15-3-has-serious-bugs/ 23 comments apple
- Catalina 10.15.2 has changed Gatekeeper’s dialogs to confuse notarization status https://eclecticlight.co/2019/12/15/catalina-10-15-2-has-changed-gatekeepers-dialogs-to-confuse-notarization-status/ 4 comments apple
- macOS Catalina Boot Volume Layout https://eclecticlight.co/2019/10/08/macos-catalina-boot-volume-layout/ 10 comments apple
- The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra https://eclecticlight.co/2018/01/02/the-app-you-cant-trash-how-sip-is-broken-in-high-sierra/ 17 comments apple