MacOS was introduced in 1984 to run Apple's Macintosh computers. The OS was set up as a GUI, meaning users could navigate using a mouse to select icons and folders -- as opposed to having to type commands and text prompts into directories, which Windows OS had at the time. Mac OS was...
MacOS menus stay open until you click the mouse, trigger a command from the keyboard, or buy a new computer, whichever comes first. They’re consistently arranged. The first menu in every program, which appears in bold lettering, tells you at a glance what program you’re in (Safari, Mic...
Those are all the steps you can follow to make your Linux system look more like macOS. While your PC will resemble macOS for the most part, it’ll still run on the Linux kernel, meaning you won’t be able to get the complete Apple experience unless you switch to anew MacBookor an i...
However, keep in mind that buying any Mac Mini means you have to provide your own mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Right now, the base model with an M2 chip, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD is on sale for $499 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and ...
The same feature can be found in iOS, meaning you can now create wiki-style collections of interlinked notes, allowing you to organize your thoughts or discover new connections and associations between ideas. 16. Studio Light and Background Blur ...
You can buy a cheap USB device to read data off a bare drive, so I still have access to what was on the computer beforehand. Reply Kelly July 24, 2020 at 7:43 AM I did this exact process to re-fuse the drive. The “no space in home drive” issue still persists. I do not ...
All computers have firmware of some type - EFI, BIOS - to help in the discovery of hardware components and ultimately to properly bootstrap the computer using the desired OS instance. In the case of Apple hardware and the use of EFI, Apple stores relevant information within EFI to aid in ...
If you get the error message that says, "The recovery server could not be contacted" on your MacBook, don't worry. This article will explain the meaning, possible causes, and solutions to fix the error "the recovery server could not be contacted" with practical methods. ...
Keyboard dictation on Apple silicon Macs now protects user privacy by performing general dictation processing on-device, meaning it's completely offline. (Dictated search requests remain server-based, however.) And thanks to on-device dictation, users with Apple silicon Macs can also dictate text ...
Every year when Apple releases a new operating system, it usually drops support for at least one older Mac model, meaning the new macOS can't be installed on that Mac. Unfortunately, replacing a Mac is not as easy as replacing macOS, so you may be looking for a workaround to install ...