After several years of Macs arriving with their SSDs soldered to the logic board and not immediately upgradable, the M4 Mac mini arrives with a slotted and upgradeable SSD. While Apple doesn’t officially approve of SSD upgrades on the desktop, it’s possible, and the cool cats at iFixit have once again put together an excellent […]
This could come in handy. A new option in the new macOS Sequoia developer beta allows users to install Map App Store downloads on external drives as well as run the apps from there. It’s not a huge change, but it can help with space and storage requirements, as Apple has revised app installations so […]
You can’t knock a good bug fix/maintenance update. Apple appears to be internally testing an iOS 17.1.1 update for the iPhone given evidence seen in website analytics logs. The update is thought to focus heavily on bug fixes as opposed to new features and could include the same fix for Wi-Fi connectivity issues that Apple […]
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, […]
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 […]