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In year 37 you can't manually zap the 'PRAM' on Apple Silicon Macs.



True, but I guess 95% of mac users are still on Intel macs, are still being told by "genius" bar frontline support to reset the SMC / zap PRAM for any kind of issue, and this usually works, too. Jury is still out on whether the M1 auto-zapping architecture is better, or will just be more prone to being permanently messed up.


Well, the fact that nobody ever has to zap PRAM on an iOS device means that they’ve probably fixed that (or, since you can’t zap PRAM anymore, people just restore the device instead...)




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