A series of interesting articles on various Mac product rumors from Mark Gurman this week. Should be an interesting year.
Apple also released macOS 11.2 and iOS 14.4 (and siblings) release candidate to the various beta programs yesterday. Should be an interesting week.
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News and Opinion
- Apple (AAPL) MacBook Pros With MagSafe Return in the Works – Mark Gurman, Bloomberg
- Apple Plans Redesigned iMac, New Mac Pro, Smaller Mac Pro, Cheaper Monitor – Mark Gurman, Bloomberg
- Apple (AAPL) Plans New MacBook Air with MagSafe, MacBook Pro With SD Card Slot – Mark Gurman, Bloomberg
Apple silicon Macs
- Last Week on My Mac: 1 True Recovery – Howard Oakley
- FileVault login screen differences between Intel and Apple Silicon Macs – Rich Trouton
- Firmware passwords of all kinds disabled for Silicon-chip Macs – Alan Siu
- Notes on Activation Lock: Apple Silicon Management Challenges – Nathaniel Strauss
- System management and NVRAM on M1 Macs – Howard Oakley
- Running Intel code on your M1 Mac: Rosetta 2 and OAH – Howard Oakley
MacAdmins on Twitter
- François: “To list applications that are not Universal, try a spotlight search with ‘Executable Architectures’ is not ‘arm64’ and ‘Kind’ is ‘Executable’. CLI:
mdfind 'kMDItemExecutableArchitectures != arm64 && kMDItemContentType == "‘ - macshome: “1. Save the search as a smart folder 2. Get info on the folder 3. Copy query”
- Zachary Cutlip: “Can’t recall if I shared this before, but quick tip to customize your shell inside VSCode, as well as keep it from polluting your shell history: Check for
TERM_PROGRAMenv variable == ‘vscode'”
Bugs and Security
Support and HowTos
- A Guide to Startup Modes for Intel and M1 Macs – Howard Oakley
- Electron and Squirrel.framework suck…– Bart Reardon
- Planned update for injection-based plugins – Outlook for Mac (via Erik Schwiebert)
Scripting and Automation
Apple Support
- Wifi specification details (updated, via Mike Lynn)
- MacBook Pro Wi-Fi specification details
- MacBook Air Wi-Fi specification details
- iPhone Wi-Fi specification details
- iPad Wi-Fi specification details
- Wi-Fi specification details for Apple TV
- Wi-Fi specification details for iPod touch
To Listen
- Richard Glaser Talks Radmind, MacOSLabs, and how the more things change, the more they kinda’ stay the same – Mac Admins Podcast
- FileVault Incrimination — Command-Control-Power
- Big Data in the Cloud with Seth Goldin – MacDevOpsYVR
MacAdmin Pet of the Week
This week’s pet is Marshmallow – one of our two bunnies – who was definitely up to something. (Picture by my wife Ariane.)
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