The Bleeding Edge

Purchased from Amazon. Arrived with no documentation. I found the manual on the web. Powers up and displays the splash screen, and the power light turns blue. Then it says "No Signal", and the power light turns amber. Not recognized by the computer (an Apple Studio Ultra M2). … [Read more...]

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...]