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Microsoft adds Apple Silicon/M1 support to Visual Studio Code 1.54

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 […]

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Rumor: Apple could remove some Rosetta 2 regional support for M1-based Macs in macOS Big Sur 11.3 update

This is a bit odd. Apple could be planning to remove support for its Rosetta 2 translation layer on M1-based Macs in certain regions with the release of macOS Big Sur 11.3. Per code strings discovered by MacRumors reader Stever Moser, the third beta of macOS Big Sur 11.3, which was seeded to developers Tuesday, […]

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UTM runs on both Intel and M1-based Macs, allows easy virtualization for wide array of platforms

This is pretty cool. UTM allows owners of M1-based Macs to run virtual machines on the new Apple Silicon hardware. The software uses Apple’s Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds. UTM also runs on Intel-based Macs, allowing for x86 and x64-based operating systems to be virtualization, […]

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Apple requests Developer Transition Kit Mac minis to be returned by March 31, offers $500 credit per unit

If you have a Developer Transition Kit Mac mini from Apple, it’s almost time to ship it back. Apple has confirmed that developers have until March 31, 2021, to send the Developer Transition Kit (DTK) back to Cupertino. Per a new email sent out to members of its Universal App Quick Start Program, Apple says […]

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Some M1 Mac users report alarming warnings as to their solid state drive usage/potential life span

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 […]