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Stock Apps

  • You should be opinionated about Apple’s stock apps

    In a recent post, I covered the differences between Macs from the factory and those that were wiped and macOS was reinstalled. A major difference is that the factory Macs include 5 additional applications: Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iMovie, and GarageBand. I’ve discovered that there’s a very good reason to be opinionated about whether or not…

  • Differences between factory and clean installs of macOS

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    macOS can be cleanly re-installed using Erase All Contents and Settings, transferring an IPSW file while in DFU mode, and by using the startosinstall –eraseinstall command in the macOS Install app. All of these come with trade offs. None of them are exactly the same as a factory Mac. EACS IPSW EI OS version Same…