The Bleeding Edge

A few months ago, I bought a 4 TB SanDisk Professional 4 TB Thunderbolt SSD. It worked fine. When my wife wanted a drive to use with Time Machine on her Mac, I gave it to her and bought another. I used it with Time Machine on my MacBook Pro M4. It seemed to work fine, but I never … [Read more...]

Yesterday, I reported on my experiences getting a improperly assembled OWC Titan SE 36 TB SSD installed on my Mac Studio M2 Ultra computer. It now appears to be running fine. I put the skins back on and ran the ATTO disk benchmark.   This is about as fast as a … [Read more...]

Because of the performance of the new Apple silicon, I'm gradually switching much of my work to Macs. I have been using a MacBook Pro M4 Max for the past three months, and, after some initial difficulties which required an OS re-install to fix, it appears to be running like a … [Read more...]

A couple of months ago, I got one of the first Apple M4 Pro Macbooks, with the fastest processor configuration and 128 GB of DRAM. I only write about OOBE’s (out of box experiences) when they are interesting, and this one was utterly Apple-simple. I’m not a newcomer to Apple … [Read more...]