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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1937859" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>This is an excellent article on what can and cannot be done with external bootable drives on Mx Macs. </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/09/should-you-make-an-emergency-disk-for-an-apple-silicon-mac/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I know we've had lots of discussion here about bootable clones of Mx Macs, but Howard's summary says it better than I've seen expressed anywhere.</p><p></p><p>NOTE: In a business environment, where it <strong><em>might </em></strong>make sense to have a spare Mx Mac sitting around for emergency use, a clone could be useful to restore to that spare. But if the internal storage of an Mx Mac fails, that bootable clone probably won't boot on the failed Mac in any case, as Howard explains.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1937859, member: 396914"] This is an excellent article on what can and cannot be done with external bootable drives on Mx Macs. [URL unfurl="true"]https://eclecticlight.co/2023/11/09/should-you-make-an-emergency-disk-for-an-apple-silicon-mac/[/URL] I know we've had lots of discussion here about bootable clones of Mx Macs, but Howard's summary says it better than I've seen expressed anywhere. NOTE: In a business environment, where it [B][I]might [/I][/B]make sense to have a spare Mx Mac sitting around for emergency use, a clone could be useful to restore to that spare. But if the internal storage of an Mx Mac fails, that bootable clone probably won't boot on the failed Mac in any case, as Howard explains. [/QUOTE]
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