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Guide: How to troubleshoot PowerNap weirdness under OS X 10.8

There’s been a lot written about OS X 10.8’s new PowerNap feature, wherein your 2011-2012 MacBook Air and 2012 Retina Display MacBook Pro notebooks can perform various background tasks (such as synchronization and updates) while in Sleep mode, but it’s hard to say what to do when things go wrong. With that in mind, the […]

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Apple releases SMC firmware updates, enables Power Nap feature for mid-2011, mid-2011 MacBook Air notebooks

At long last, your mid-2011 and mid-2012 MacBook Air notebooks will be able to nap. Per AppleInsider, a pair of firmware updates released by Apple on Wednesday enable the Power Nap in certain MacBook Air models that were promised the feature but found it missing when OS X Mountain Lion launched on Wednesday. Apple rolled […]

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Apple releases MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.5 for unspecified MacBook Pro notebooks

In addition to the AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule firmware updates, Apple on Friday also released MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.5, which reportedly “resolves an issue where a MacBook Pro being used with a power adapter may unexpectedly shut down under heavy workload if the battery charge level is near empty.” Per The […]

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Second-gen MacBook Air may be demonstrating logic board errors

This could be a bit foreboding. Per Cult of Mac, a rising number of complaints from users of the new MacBook Air has appeared regarding kernel panics, video distortion and other issues that could be related to defective logic boards. Apple Discussion forum user, DanRyb, basically stated that his 11-inch model would randomly display “weird […]

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Apple releases MacBook SMC Firmware Updater 1.4 for older MacBook, MacBook Pro notebooks

Late Thursday, Apple released its MacBook SMC Firmware Updater 1.4 for older MacBook and MacBook Pro models solves a charging issue that takes place when using the latest MagSafe power adapters. The update, an 880 kilobyte download, requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.4 to install and run. If you’ve tried the update and noticed […]