An outstanding review of the current situations by the author. I found it reassuring and comforting for the future Macs I will own (still using Intel Macs). As long as the internal SSD on the Apple silicon Macs does not fail and there is a good data backup, getting back to the way it was before the problem should be very do-able.
On a Mac since 1984.
Currently: 24" M1 iMac, M2 Pro Mac mini with 27" BenQ monitor, M2 Macbook Air, MacOS 14.x; iPhones, iPods (yes, still) and iPads.
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