Microsoft Office only supports the last three versions of macOS. So if you want to install it onto an older version of macOS, you need to know what the last supported version number is. You can download that from Update History for Office for Mac, or use the direct links provided here. Big Sur ...
The $1,299 two-port iMac vs the four-port $1,499 iMac
Apple refreshed their iMacs last month, but one fine detail is that there are really two models: a two-port model that starts at $1,299, and a four-port model that starts at $1,499. (There is also a $1,699 base model, but that's just a better-configured version of the four-port model.) The ...
stupid APFS tricks
APFS does a few things differently than HFS does. Some of it is under-the-hood stuff that has to do with encryption and security. But in terms of your day-to-day use, there are a couple of odd tricks it can perform. Multiple volumes per disk partition Most file systems create one volume per disk ...
Welcome to APFS
This is a more technical post, so you can just skip it if it's not your bag. All of the data on your Mac's drive has to be organized in some fashion, so that you can get to it. This is accomplished via what is known as a file system, and the only metaphor I can come up with for it is increasingly ...
the simplest Time Capsule replacement
When Apple decided to exit the WiFi products market, one unwelcome casualty was the Time Capsule. Forgetting its router and access point capabilities, it solved an important problem for Mac notebook users -- it was a drive that attached to your network, rather than directly to your computer. In my ...
Ding, dong! No more hard drives in iMacs!
For years, and years, and years, Apple has been staining its brand by shipping iMacs with hard drives in them. macOS hasn't performed particularly well on hard drives in quite a while, and, since Mojave was released a couple of years ago, it's been just absolutely unusable, due to the switch to the ...