If you’re brave (and/or foolish) enough, you can arguably upgrade the RAM and SSD storage in your M1-based Mac. Recently, a maintenance engineer in China was able to do exactly this, and while Apple sometimes goes out of its way to make some of its devices notoriously difficult to repair or upgrade on your own, […]
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Back in the mid-2000’s, actor Justin Long was synonymous with Apple via the company’s “Get a Mac” commercials, wherein he playing a “Mac” and comedian John Hodgman played a “PC.” Now, Long has cast in a new Intel commercial wherein he identifies as “Justin” and extols the virtues of Intel-based PCs as opposed to Apple’s […]
If you’re a developer, this is going to come in handy. Microsoft on Friday announced that the company has now included support for M1 Macs for its Visual Studio Code software, beginning with version 1.54. The company offered the following comments: We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds this […]
This could be a bit of a warning sign for some M1 Mac users. A number of M1 Mac owners have begun to highlight hard drive health reports that could potentially indicate life span issues for the solid state drives within their machines. iMore offered the following comments: The issue of ‘TBW’, or total bytes […]
The Silver Sparrow malware is out in the wild. And no one quite seems to know what it does. Over the weekend, news surfaced of a mysterious new pieced of malware called “Silver Sparrow” that had infected 30,000 computers to date. There’s also a version of it built for the new M1-based Macs. To date, […]