Apple Releases EFI Firmware Updates for 2010 MacBook and 13-Inch MacBook Pro

[macintoshtoffy]

I use Safari 5.0.3 - i know flash sucks and i'm just using youtube as an example - my laptop seems to run hotter in general now.

I'm just surprised because I don't see the same problem on either my iMac or MacBook Pro - neither of them are speed demons; my MacBook Pro has video decode offloading (late 2009 with a 9400M video card, 2.53Ghz processor, 13.3inch) and my iMac uses CPU decoding - neither of them exhibit CPU utilisation over 25% when playing a YouTube video.

There has to be something happening behind the scenes which is causing such a problem that doesn't appear on my computer - what version of Flash do you have installed?

 

[zorinlynx]

Given that I haven't had any issues and we've already had a report of one bricked MBP and another that's running hotter, I think I'm going to skip this update.

EFI updates are a very definite "Only update if you're experiencing problems" deal. In this case this seems doubly so.

Good luck everyone.

 

[Avlor]

I'll reiterate the question that has already been asked, does 2.0 mean UEFI 2.0? Coz this would allow to run Windows natively, without any Bootcamp layers. Don't have time to try it out myself right now..

 

[macintoshtoffy]

I'll reiterate the question that has already been asked, does 2.0 mean UEFI 2.0? Coz this would allow to run Windows natively, without any Bootcamp layers. Don't have time to try it out myself right now..

You can run Windows natively without bookcamp, all bootcamp is provides a nice way to do a whole heap of stuff you'd normally do manually. If you want to run Windows full time on your Mac then by all means do so

Given that I haven't had any issues and we've already had a report of one bricked MBP and another that's running hotter, I think I'm going to skip this update.

EFI updates are a very definite "Only update if you're experiencing problems" deal. In this case this seems doubly so.

Good luck everyone.

Don't believe every report - there was some idiot who claimed that 10.6.5 screwed up his cable connection, he then later admitted that the local cable internet company had upgraded something and he had to upgrade his modem for his net connection to work again. People claim stupid stuff and post it on the internet even when they have no evidence of any correlation/causation as to that particular action leading to a problem. It truly is amazing how people can take something so easy (a firmware upgrade) and make a pigs breakfast of it.