I will not get into any arcane storage options of unknown companies offering lifetime schemes. In fact, I would advise avoiding all such for a variety of reasons.
Let’s look at the top 3 names that offer us reliable cloud storage for normal users.
1. Apple iCloud
2. Google Drive
3. Microsoft OneDrive
Although there are some more names like DropBox, Amazon etc. we will ignore those for now…
This is a little known technique that I wanted to share, but, kept forgetting 🙂
Basically, it’s not just Lightroom, this technique works for all disk/file intensive applications on the Mac and since Windows also indexes file, this would work on Windows as well.
Let’s take a brief look at how to speed up such applications on the Mac…
A brief look at the WD My Passport SSD and a comparison with the Sandisk Extreme SSD.
Link to WD My Passport SSD on Amazon: https://amzn.to/39KY21W
#SSD #Sandisk #WDMyPassport #Mac
This SSD is good enough for all practical purposes excepting for editing 4k, or higher, video.
In practice, you will not notice the difference between the 4 times faster internal SSD on the MacBook Pro vs this Sandisk Extreme SSD.
The SSD link at Amazon: https://amzn.to/39Qw6Kl
Type C to Type A Adapter at Amazon: https://amzn.to/3mQZX9a
#SandDisk #SSD #Mac #MacBook
This is an irritant for some people like me who use multiple drives and partitions. Since all Windows and/or Linux boot partitions show up as “efi boot” on the Mac startup, it is desirable to change the name on startup so we can easily figure out which partition is which.
For some, it is merely the aesthetic value, but, in either case, being able to change the EFI boot name is generally desirable.
In this video, we will see how to do this on the Mac for installers and then how to change the same once we are booted into Windows on the Mac.
Generally, since we would format the Windows partition to NTFS, we have to use a small workaround in Windows to change the boot name for the Mac.
In this video, we will see how to go about the name change…
Once upon a time, the Apple BootCamp worked as expected for the most part. In recent times though, that is no longer correct as many might already know.
There are occasions when I need to use native Windows and I would like that to be on an external SSD to be used and re-installed as and when needed.
There are 2 main issues when trying to install Windows on a Mac if you do not have a Windows system around.
1. Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad does not work
2. You need Windows to get a NTFS formatted drive
There is a lot of material on the Internet that seems to be more in the legacy domain now.
I will discuss how to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 10 on the Mac using simple tools that anyone can deal with. The bootable USB I create works fine on both my iMac and MacBook Pro since I get the keyboard working in both cases and that allows me to install the Apple BootCamp drivers and application without any external requirements.
Let us see how this can be done…
Download Windows 10 ISO from:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
Download UNetBootIn from:
https://unetbootin.github.io
Download Extramagic from:
http://extramagic.forbootcamp.org
Download the AutoUnattend.xml from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dxoQk3YAeWOqJYuRTtIHQU0_dsrywKTI/view?usp=sharing
Given the fact that there are applications that are yet to be updated to be compatible with MacOS Big Sur, quite a few people saw a need to downgrade back to their older MacOS versions.
I will discuss how to create an external USB bootable drive for multiple MacOS versions and how to use this drive including on systems which have a T2 chip on them.
The Apple support links are as follows:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
The free archiver Keka can be found at:
Let’s see how this works…
After a few days of testing a variety of applications, my conclusion is that this notebook is a good choice for the segment it targets.
The build quality is quite good for the price point as also the features.
I purchased this from Amazon. The link for this is https://amzn.to/38qY7Y3
Skylum just released an update for Luminar 4 and hopefully, it fixes the issues with Big Sur.
Since I downgraded back to Catalina, I cannot really comment on if it does fix the export issue on Mac OS 11.
Mi offers this webcam along with their non e-Learning edition of the notebooks. Interestingly, I could not find it on their site, so, I purchased this from Amazon.
This is a very small, credit card sized webcam and works perfectly with the Mac and Windows systems that I tried it on. Simply plug and play.
The build quality of the webcam is nice as also the video quality.
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