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I have been using an LG 27UK650 4k monitor as second monitor on my 2019 iMac and on my 2018 Mac mini. As of macOS Monterey, this monitor is no longer correctly recognised and the suspicion is that this leads to problems such as this one...

As you may know, Mac OS X Lion dropped support for 32-bit Intel Macs. Mountain Lion also removed the 32-bit kernel and EFI bootloader. However, it's possible to get Lion running on 32-bit Macs by swapping out the kernel, the bootloader, and the Finder, as well as some drivers (kexts) and...

Much like Grendel in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, the much talked about but rarely seen version 9 of the Arm instruction set has been officially announced. Simon Segars, Arm's CEO, did so on the company's website: Armv9 officially announced. For a third-party analysis, take a look at Andrei...

I came across this on twitter, by the looks of it, it may not be too long before we can run productivity type apps (like Outlook 365) also on the new apple silicon

Apple's new m1 chips are met with universal praise. And rightly so: They completely outclass the intel chips in previous macs. But I feel like there is some misrepresentation going on here. Was this made possible by the move from x86 to ARM? Or is it about engineering innovations and good chip...

Recently rumors have been heating up that Apple will move Macs to the ARM architecture next year (2021.) What does that mean for Windows support on Macs? Will there be a few high performance Macs that still use Intel chips? (I'm looking at you, Mac Pro.) Will Apple offer some kind of emulation...

Back in 2005 at WWDC, Steve Jobs revealed in dramatic taste, how OS X was developed to be processor agnostic from its inception. Early hints of this can be found in developer previews of OS X, which let developers target either PowerPC or Intel development. Even ancestor of OS X, NextStep and...