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EFI firmware trick allows some 2008 MacBooks, MacBook Pros to address 8GB of RAM

Sometimes these things catch you by surprise in nifty ways. Per the Apple Core, the cool cats at Other World Computing took another look at the memory limits in some of Appleā€™s late 2008 Core 2 Duo MacBook and MacBook Pros. Its testing found that a specific blend of updated firmware, Boot ROM and OS […]

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Apple includes SSD Trim support for 2011 MacBook Pro notebooks under Mac OS X 10.6.6

The future is solid state hard drives. Which isn’t bad, as they’re pretty nifty. Per AppleInsider, the 2011 MacBook Pro models are shipping with Mac OS X 10.6.6 (build 10J3210), which supplies TRIM support for bundled Apple Solid State Drives, enabling extended performance of the fast new devices via background maintenance. The change comes a […]