June 23, 2009 8:39 AM PDT
Apple updates MacBook Pro firmware
Apple has released an update for its newest MacBook Pro notebooks introduced at its Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month.
According to notes provided with Monday's MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7, it allows drives to use transfer speeds greater than 1.5Gbps. Specifically, these drives are based on the SATA 3Gbps specification.
Apple does note that use of these drives is completely unsupported. The company has not qualified any of the drives for use and does not offer any of the drives itself.
The update and instructions for applying it are available from Apple's support Web site.
Jim Dalrymple has followed Apple and the Mac industry for the last 15 years, first as part of MacCentral and then in various positions at Macworld. A guitar player for 20 years, Jim also writes about the professional audio market, examining the best ways to write and record songs on a Macintosh with Logic Pro and Pro Tools. Jim is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. 
The complaints were from modders who were putting in the fastest Intel drives and seeing a "noticeable" slowdown, which in the real world of non-exaggeration translates to an UNnoticeable slowdown/placebo effect, and they were mad that the chip inside was capable of 3.0 but was not enabled. Some were mad because it limited upgrade options "down the road" as faster SSDs will eventually be cheap enough and large enough to make sense and you might actually notice the slight decrease in max throughput. Then again, anyone impacted by that kind of minor speed difference also won't be happy with a "slow" 2-year old laptop once the prices come down anyway, and would already have sold this MacBook Pro and moved on the next one.
So now it is enabled. The world can start spinning again.
- by jinx101a June 24, 2009 9:37 AM PDT
- So is this what you get for all the extra cash? :P
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