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How to start up your M1 Mac from an external drive It’s not as easy as it used to be, as it likely requires you purchase new hardware. Mac 911 Feb 18, 2021 7:15 pm PST IDG Apple’s relatively new M1 Macs that rely on Apple silicon have a number of usability differences from previous Intel-based Macs. One difference that’s tripped some readers up is how to start up or boot the M1 Mac from an external drive. Intel Macs generally make this easy. You might want to use a bo...

In 2020, Apple made sweeping changes to improve user privacy across all product categories. Some include making app developers be transparent with their subscribers. They were made to mandatorily submit details on the Apple App Store showing how much and what type of user-information is being tracked by the apps. Now, the Cupertino-based company has updated the Apple Platform

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...

Booting an M1 Mac from an external disk: it is possible Last week I described how I had been unable to get either of my M1 Macs to start up from an external disk. Thanks to many comments but no real clues, I’ve now been able to solve this, and here explain how you can do this too. Reliably. You’ll need the following: an M1 Mac; if you haven’t got one yet, I’m afraid it’s far too late for Christmas; a Thunderbolt 3 SSD, such as a Samsung X5, freshly formatted in APFS (unencrypted) a...