Albeit mobile devices are important, never forget your home desktop machines. Late Monday, Apple released EFI Firmware 1.4 for the early 2009 Mac Pro desktop workstations. The update, a 1.9 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Improves compatibility with virtualization products utilizing VT-d. – Improves storage performance under Windows XP for Boot […]
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Apple’s newly-released 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pro notebooks now boast a feature in which users can boot from the SD card slot in a pinch.
According to a tech note published by Apple, users can install Mac OS X on an SD card and use it as a startup volume simply by changing the default partition table to GUID using Disk Utility, and then formating the card to use the Mac OS Extended file format.
Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.7 update has been released, none of my Macs are on fire and I consider this a good thing. Still, there’s bound to be problems and the hep cats at MacFixIt have begun to collect reports on a couple of outstanding issues: Blue Screen This update may automatically restart your computer […]
Late Tuesday, Apple released its SMC Firmware Update 1.3 for the company’s 13″ polycarbonate (black and white non-unibody) MacBook notebooks released in early 2009. The update, a 557 kilobyte download, works to clear a performance issue wherein the notebook may slow down when booted while using battery power only. This SMC Update improves startup time […]