Long story short - I've got my Mum's old iMac which is a Core i5 2500S vintage machine. 12GB RAM, 1TB spinning drive. Still quite a nice unit, screen is still good, so trying to see if we can make use ...

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 ...

Running Linux software on a Mac can be a powerful way to leverage the strengths of both operating systems. Here are six methods to achieve this, each with detailed steps and considerations. MacPorts ...

Google’s Chrome OS is a lightweight, secure operating system that was originally built around Google’s Chrome web browser, but which has become more versatile over the years with a built-in file ...

When it comes time to get a new Mac, you have three options: Trade in your old Mac, sell it, or hold onto it. Macs tend to maintain a good amount of value but some Macs are more in demand than others.

pearOS is now an Arch-based distribution. This Linux distro looks and feels like MacOS. You can install and use this OS for free. Pear OS has had a bit of history. It ...

The new 'amifuse' project aims to fix that with a new filesystem driver built around an invisible m68k CPU emulator. Amifuse is a FUSE driver for macOS and Linux, allowing you to natively mount disk ...

If you have an old iMac from the early 2000s, you can breathe new life into the hardware by turning it into a Steam gaming machine. Here's how. The popular online gaming service Steam lets you ...

M1 Mac Linux 6.2 support is now available – an achievement that Linux creator Linus Torvalds originally saw as an impossible task. It can be run on the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra chips. Torvalds ...

The Unix underpinnings of Mac OS make it feel familiar and accessible to programmers used to working in Unix-like environments. Apple’s Xcode IDE and other development tools are thoughtfully crafted ...