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I don’t know what went on with this time but it has drove me crazy for one morning… let’s start the story saying that those ARM Macs are beautiful/fantistic/great products! So I bought a MacBook Air…

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External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs When running Big Sur 11.1 on an M1 Mac, making a bootable external disk is entirely unpredictable. Some users seem to have all the luck, and the first external SSD they connect to their M1 Mac works fine with the Big Sur installer, and they don’t look back. For others, the macOS installer just can’t do the trick, and a high-quality SSD is left unbootable. Now that Big Sur can be updated to 11.2, I’ve been looking at how that af...

Can’t find the Scheme menu in macOS’s Disk Utility? Here’s how to find it It’s a minor riddle, but easily solved (we make it up in volume). Mac 911 Jan 26, 2021 8:00 pm PST Apple If you want to use Disk Utility to format—and more often than not, re-format—a drive in macOS, you may sometimes want to first choose the scheme for backwards or multi-platform compatibility. The scheme defines the overall organization of the drive, which can feel pretty obscure, becau...

» How to clear an SD card and erase all of its data, including the hidden junk files you cant usually delete How to clear an SD card and erase all of its data, including the hidden junk files you cant usually delete Dave JohnsonJan 28, 2021, 00:17 IST SD cards are easy to clear out using any computer.Rafi Letzter/Tech Insider You can clear an SD card by formatting it, which is the best way to free up space on a card. To format an SD card, you can use the File Explorer app on a PC, or the Disk...

Mac computers are generally reliable. But as with any computer, sometimes things go wrong. Before you spend big on a new Mac, though, try a factory reset, which wipes your computer and reinstalls a clean version of macOS. A factory reset is also the best way to prepare your old computer for a new owner to make sure no leftover data falls into the wrong hands. The process has been the same for years on Macs with Intel processers, however, the move to Apple silicon has slightly altered the metho...

OWC Envoy Pro Elektron SSD review: Fast, svelte, IP67-rated USB 10GBps storage This small, stylish drive looks nice next to a Mac. Its also fast and surprisingly ruggedized Credit: OWC If good things come in small packages, then the truism reigns supreme in the case of the Envoy Pro Elektron. It’s small, it’s good–by good I mean it’s rugged, fits easily in a shirt pocket, and delivers 1GBps reads and writes over SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps. (If you’re not up to speed to the latest...

Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide If good things come in small packages, then the truism reigns supreme in the case of the Envoy Pro Elektron. It’s small, it’s good–by good I mean it’s rugged, fits easily in a shirt pocket, and delivers 1GBps reads and writes over SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps. (If you’re not up to speed to the latest USB naming conventions, that’s USB 3.X Gen 2.)  Design and specs  The Envoy Pro Elektron is a small, silvery rectangle...

How to Stop the Spinning Wheel on Your Mac Your Mac hijacking your cursor and asking you to wait around is never welcome. People call it different things, including the spinning wheel, beachball, or pinwheel of death. The good news is a spinning wheel means macOS hasn’t crashed completely. You might be able to wrestle back control. What Is the Spinning Wheel of Death on a Mac? That rainbow spinning wheel (whatever you might call it) is a common macOS wait cursor. It’s triggered when an app...

  Before selling, gifting, or recycling a Mac, youll want to take a number of steps to properly prepare it. Heres how. Whether you have your eye on a new M1 Mac or you just want to get rid of an old macOS device in an environmentally responsible way, its important to properly sign out of certain services and delete your old data before doing so. The process is fairly straightforward but may take some time, so be sure to budget some time to preparing your Mac before getting rid of it. Also, the...