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Intel management engine - is macOS vulnerable?
First: it's not macOS itself which is vulnerable in the first place but the firmware and related hardware is affected. In a second step your system may be attacked though.
Only some of the impacted ...
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Should I be worried if the newest Macbook Pro specs are lower than my older Macbook Pro spec?
Your question is actually based on a wrong assumption, namely that you're interpreting the specs of the current 2019 MacBook Pros as being lower than those for the 2018 models.
Using your specific ...
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Intel management engine - is macOS vulnerable?
Screen shot if the intel detection tool run in boot camp on a Q32017 MacBook Pro
Intel detection tool: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html
Bad news guys
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Late 2019 Macbook Air with Intel Core i5 8GB RAM 128 SSD
No, the processor is soldered. I highly doubt buying a logic board is a good choice. You can't buy it from Apple, so you're stuck with third party options. It's also fairly likely that a working logic ...
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Any app or script to track per process usage?
Based on answer from Lri,
MacOS solution to create the following graph
# Install dependencies
brew install gnuplot libmagic
# Sample process. Replace 1234 with process ID
while sleep 1;do ps -p ...
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Intel management engine - is macOS vulnerable?
I can confirm, with info directly from my local Apple Store, that Intel Macs do indeed ship with Intel ME hardware, and that Apple does not modify any Intel hardware. Though at this point I can't ...
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Which model has better CPU-performance: iMac MMQA2HN/A or Mac mini MRTR2HN/A?
The iMac in your screenshot comes with the Intel i5-7360U CPU. The Mac Mini comes with the i3-8100B CPU.
If you look at the PassMark benchmark, the i5-7360U CPU benchmarks at 5823 passmarks multi-...
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KEUbvKya proccess
Open the Terminal app in the Utility folder.
Type kill -9 2746
that is sending the kill command (9) to the Process ID 2746 which is your (KEUbvKya process).
If it reincarnates (comes back to life) ...
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2.7GHz or 2.8GHz
There are multiple factors on which the clock speed depends such as the number of cores, cache memory, architecture etc.Clock speed is the rate at which a processor executes a task and is measured in ...
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) high temperature
As a starting point I would reset both your NVRAM and your SMC. See below for instructions.
Reset your NVRAM
Newer Macs use Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM). It may be worth you resetting ...
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Mac Pro 2020 upgradability - DDR5, ARM, Neural Engine?
The short answer is no, the Mac Pro isn’t upgradeable to any if those technologies.
DDR5 RAM, is a low power, but double bandwidth compared to DDR4. Its a standard that hasn’t been released yet, and ...
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How can current versions of Adobe products continue to run on the new Macs with Apple Silicon?
Apple includes a software called Rosetta that works like a "bridge" between the Apple Silicon and Intel by "translating" the intel binaries into Apple Silicon binaries that can be ...
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How can current versions of Adobe products continue to run on the new Macs with Apple Silicon?
Apple is using Rosetta 2. Scroll down the page for this bit:
“With Big Sur and M1, Mac users can run a greater range of apps than ever before. All of Apple’s Mac software is now Universal and runs ...
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Per-process CPU doesn't add up to total in Activity Monitor?
The %CPU column is percentage of one [virtual] core. The total summary is percentage of entire CPU. So if, for instance you have 4 real cores, 8 virtual, the maximum possible total figure in the %CPU ...
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How to tell generation of Intel processor of Macs on Apple's website?
I'd check out other resources, such as EveryMac: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/index-macbookpro.html
Although the details aren't there yet, they will be shortly, and they include ...
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Folding@Home project killing CPU
If you don't deselect the Uninstaller in the installer app, the Folding@home folder also contains an uninstaller.pkg:
If the Uninstall [email protected] is missing in your environment simply download ...
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Collect data on CPU usage per core at regular time intervals?
There is a tool that can collect this information called glances, which is a command line based monitoring tool that can track all sorts of parameters.
It can be installed via homebrew:
brew install ...
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How large is my 2012 MacBook Air's L1 cache? Are they larger now?
Your current MacBook Air has an L1 cache of 128 kB. So your guess of 10^5 bytes is not far off!
The latest MacBook Air has the same amount of L1 cache, so in that respect it is the same. However, ...
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Understanding Processor specifications
Side note, Intel's i3, i5, i7, and i9 naming schemes don't tell how many cores there are (they used to, I believe, but they weren't 3, 5, or 7). Cores are also almost always distributed in even ...
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Could I take a Core i7 form a 2012 MBP and put it into a 2018 MBP?
Realistically possible? No.
Technically possible? I'm not going to say it'd be absolutely 100% impossible, but unless you had the time, skills, equipment (and money) to burn on a side project, it ...
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Could I take a Core i7 form a 2012 MBP and put it into a 2018 MBP?
I don't know what exact CPU model numbers are involved here, but a simple check of the sockets for the ranges shows that the 2011 or 2012 i7 will not fit on a motherboard designed for a 2017 or 2018 ...
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cpu clock too low / force cpu clock / overclock
That sounds most probably like an old Mac, which will not go very fast anyway these days.
But the symptoms really can describe a few things of underlying problems.
misconfiguration: look at the ...
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Which CPU option on the iMac Pro gives you two FMAs?
Only a few low-end 4 core Skylake W CPUs are limited to one FMA. Even the entry-level iMac Pro has an 8 core CPU, so it would appear that all iMac Pro configurations will have two FMAs.
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Intel management engine - is macOS vulnerable?
Excerpt from INTEL-SA-00086: "The attacker gains physical access by manually updating the platform with a malicious firmware image through flash programmer physically connected to the platform’s flash ...
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Combining parts from a MacBook Pro with a Dell Inspiron
Technically speaking, yes the CPU would work (provided it was still functional). Apple makes no changes to the (Intel) CPU making it "Mac only."
However, (and this is a big one), where Dell typically ...
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Mac Pro processor upgrade, won't boot
Processors either work or they don't. As long as they are siting in their sockets correctly. Tightening the heatsinks is unlikely to do anything, but be careful not to over tighten as you could damage ...
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How to tell generation of Intel processor of Macs on Apple's website?
They are using Skylake Processors according to C|Net.
One of the biggest updates are the processors. Apple jumped from using
Intel Haswell processors to Skylake.
In another post, C|Net explains ...
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Make Activity Monitor show more than 4 cores worth of CPU usage in the Dock
It's a really funny and stupid bug.
Dock Icon -> Show Application Icon.
Activity Monitor -> Windows -> CPU Usage. [It will show a float windows, maybe with only one historical bar, horizontally.]
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Xcode Quad Core Optimization
It might have been the case for objective C in the days long gone but Xcode 8.0 does NOT make use of all the cores (at least when compiling swift).
A note to explain:
get xcode 8.0
run activity ...
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