Techtool Lite is a free Mac diagnostic app from Micromat that gives everyday users a broader health check than Disk Utility.

Asahi Linux has patched the macOS 27 boot break that hid Linux partitions from the Apple Silicon boot picker, deploying Asahi ...

Maccy users are being warned about fake sites after researchers found malware using the app’s name to steal Mac login ...

macOS 27 Golden Gate is shaping up to be one of the most significant Mac updates in years, and if you are the kind of person who wants to experience it before the rest of the world, the public beta is ...

Nobody who values the files on their computer should be without at least two regularly updated methods for backing them up. External drives are perfect for this. You can plug them into your computer, ...

When you connect a new USB drive or external drive to a laptop, phone, or another storage-compatible device, it's mostly unusable until you format it. Formatting a drive helps prepare and set up the ...

An Ars Technica colleague recently bought a new M4 MacBook Air. I have essentially nothing bad to say about this hardware, except to point out that even in our current memory shortage apocalypse, ...

On a Mac running macOS Tahoe or later, open the Apps icon in the dock and find Disk Utility to view a similar menu. For older OS versions, you'd open Launchpad > Other > Disk Utility. If it shows up ...

Upgrading a drive on your PC is generally not that difficult, but it can be tricky to move over the data, and more importantly, the operating system, to the new drive. It's recommended that you ...

Want to move your OS from an HDD to an SSD or copy data to a different drive? Here's how to do it safely. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade. His focus has ...

What can you use it for? Quite a lot, actually. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac There are lots of things you can do with an old Mac. No one will fault you for upgrading to Apple’s latest and ...