How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
Last week I showed fascinating screenshots of how M1 Macs can run background processes exclusively on their four ‘efficiency’ cores. I’ve now been digging deeper, and this article is a summary of how Intel and M1 Macs deal with multiple tasks, priorities and resources under macOS, and how that influences our assessment of their speed.
Operations and QoS
Whether Intel or ARM cores, macOS has to manage how tasks are run side-by-side on the same processor. Although this can be achieved in many different ways, for the sake of simplicity I here concentrate on operation queues using Apple’s Foundation framework, which you’re most likely to encounter in macOS apps.
The new iMac is getting a colorful clamshell sibling on May 11, 2021, 19:44
Rumor mill: An upcoming MacBook Air redesign may arrive in the next year and more information has surfaced as Apple is still perfecting it in its labs. As always, take this with a grain of salt, but it looks like the new colorful iMac with slim white bezels, white keyboard, and color-matched accessories may be a good indication of what the company has in store for the near future.
It s been rumored for months that a redesigned MacBook Air is high on Apple s priority list. Some industry watchers point out to a number of interesting internal developments at Apple, including testing of a 15-inch MacBook Air prototype as a potential new addition to the family.
4 May 2021
M1X vs M2, the next extension vs the next generation of Apple silicon for the Mac. So. why is there so much confusion and misinformation just swirling all around about what they are and where they ll show up?
Yeah, grab a beverage, maybe a snack. We re getting super nerdy with this…!
Silicon generations
Nikkei just pushed out a piece on the M2 and Bloomberg previously reported on what we re colloquially calling the M1X, basically, the chipsets all of us nerds are waiting for to run the higher-end MacBooks Pro, Mac mini, iMacs, and the eventual Mac Pro and redesigned MacBook Air that we ve been waiting for. Clamoring for! But these names, M2 and M1X are being thrown around… almost willy-nilly, and so I think it d be super useful, really a convenience to just clarify what they actually mean.
Covid in India impacts VMware s work for Apple
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Covid in India impacts VMware s work for Apple
Shilpa Phadnis / TNN / May 3, 2021, 14:06 IST
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BENGALURU: The Covid-19 surge in India has slowed down at least a segment of VMware’s desktop hypervisor development. The company said many of its India-based engineers who are part of the user interface (UI) and quality teams involved in a project to deliver virtual machines (VMs) on Apple Silicon Macs have been impacted by the virus.
VMware had announced in November that it was working to deliver VMs on Apple devices that use the latter s own processors. “Personnel wise, we have a good portion of our dedicated UI and quality teams located in India, and with the current Covid-19 situation many of our engineers are impacted in one way or another. Together, we are doing our best (to) help where we can both internally and externally,” said Michael Roy, product line manager for desktop hypervis
How to Get Apple TV’s 4K Cinematic Screen Savers on Mac
Khamosh Pathak
Apple’s professionally shot 4K cinematic screen savers are one of the best things about the Apple TV. If you’d like to use them on your Mac, you can get them for free using an open-source app. Here’s how.
The Secret? The Amazing Aerial App
The free Aerial app allows your Mac to access Apple’s own cinematic screen savers, which include fly-over videos and slow-motion drone footage shot by community members. Aerial supports Intel and Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 10.2 and higher.
To get started, head over to the Aerial website and download the application. After opening the DMG file, drag the Aerial Companion app to the Applications folder.