Howard Oakley on Muck Rack

Howard Oakley

England
As seen in: APC, TechRadar, Heise Online, GIGAZINE, Magzter Inc., MacFormat, Maclife
Chief illuminator at the Eclectic Light Company, writing about macOS, paintings; author of over 40 free utilities for macOS.
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Howard

Contact Howard, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

The Eclectic Light Company

|
By Howard Oakley
| eclecticlight.co
In my review of macOS virtualisation on Apple silicon, I quoted performance figures that were obtained some time ago, and didn’t consider minimum specifications for a usable VM. Given current interest in running a VM on a MacBook Neo, I thought it would be worth examining these afresh, from macOS Tahoe. How fast?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Eclectic Light Company

|
By Howard Oakley
| eclecticlight.co
Before Apple silicon Macs, you’ve been able to run different versions of macOS, Linux or Windows in third-party virtualisers, such as those from VMware and Parallels. Those products enable a virtual machine running a different operating system to be hosted in macOS, both running code for Intel processors.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

The Eclectic Light Company

|
By Howard Oakley
| eclecticlight.co
Apple seldom gives advanced notice of significant changes coming in the next major version of macOS, before its first beta-release at WWDC. One significant exception to this are changes to networking that could impact enterprise users. This year, with just over six weeks to go before that first beta of macOS 27, we already have two warnings of what might be coming.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 3,080 licensed articles (3,235 Total)
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified