Nowadays, the average Mac user is reasonably tech savvy. They use their tech daily and are pretty comfortable with MacOS and iOS. Generally, the average user has multiple Apple devices and they use Google Apps, Dropbox, Adobe CC and web apps such as Shopify and WordPress, home automation tools such as Amazon Echo and Sonos, the list goes on… Read More
After I started testing with ESXi 5.5 (read first post here), I couldn’t get my test Mac Pro to boot from the USB key as the ESXi OS wasn’t being seen in System Preferences -> Startup Disk. The easiest way to do this is to boot into the Mac boot loader, but how do you have this setting stick after a reboot?! Well, look no further! Read More
A couple of days ago I wanted to test VMware ESXi 5.5 on a Mac Pro 4,1 (quad-core XEON 2.66GHz / 8GB RAM). I had a couple of issues doing this, mostly my fault as, of course, I jumped straight in and didn’t read any of the documentations. Anyway, once I had read the documentation there were still a few things not covered, so I thought I would document the steps I took to get the platform installed: Read More