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Apple's MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update Improves Boot Camp

by , 5:15 PM EDT, September 27th, 2007

On Thursday, Apple posted a MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.4 that improves the performance and reliability of Mac Book Pros with Intel Core 2 Duo processors and fixes issues with Boot Camp on those systems.

The update will appear in Software Update for those users of MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo Systems.

Apple said in the update, "After the firmware is successfully applied to your computer, your BootROM Version will be one of the following:

  • MBP21.00A5.B07
  • MBP22.00A5.B07
  • MBP31.0070.B03
You can confirm the version of the BootROM installed on your computer using System Profiler."

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Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:55 pm Subject: No progress bar.. is this normal..
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Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:28 pm Subject: Just a quick note:
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Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:35 pm Subject: worked fine for me
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Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:04 pm Subject: Didn't work first time.. had a USB Drive hooked up
Close Name:alindsey Posts: 1 Joined: 28 Sep 2007
Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:36 am Subject: MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update

The Firmware upgrade went smoothly, but difficult to
see any improvements.

Under Windows applications still launch slowly when
a file is double-clicked in an Explorer window, and
login from sleep is still slow compared to most
Windows machines.


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Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:51 am Subject: Won't sleep
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