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Apple Releases EFI Firmware Updates

iWeb update

I don't know about you all, but my updater also found an update to iWeb. It's currently downloading version 2.02. Does anyone know what this is about?
 
overcast said:
Thanks Captian Obvious, what do you think EFI is? Successor to BIOS.
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EFI is not a "successor" to BIOS.

EFI is Extensible Firmware Interface and can contain 20 different type of "modules" including BIOS.Basic Input/Output System.

The BIOS is on a chip.

The EFI module is also on a chip.
 
overcast said:
Well since EFI/BIOS is the interface between the platform and the OS, that would make sense, yes?
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Only during boot up. You have to learn to listen to "programmer speek". When on of
us says "improved performance" is means "improved performance for the part of the
system I'm working on." So my new driver for the USB bug zapper will make it kill more bugs but Safari will not run any quicker.

So EFi has better performance. When are you running EFI? It wil run faster only during that time. Back in the old days, in the 1980's the OS would make a call into the BIOS
every time it wanted to do something like write a sector to the disk. Those days
are long gone.

You want my guess? I think this has something to do with Leopard.
 
Kebabselector said:
Why do people feel the need to vote negative for a firmware upgrade ?????????
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Somewhere on MR site is a FAQ or a sticky post or something I bumped into once that talks about what our votes on news announcements might mean. the gist of it was that a vote for or against means whatever the voter thinks it means, therefore the totals are... hash (my interpretation).
 
I just tried to do the update. My battery was very low before I plugged it in. I couldn't even get the update process to begin. I shut down, let it sit for a few seconds, held the power button down for a couple minutes and no flashing sleep light or an update screen. Nothing. Wtf.
 
sailnavy said:
Update refused to install on my Macbook. Odd.:confused:
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Same story for my Mac Pro, the system shuts down rather then restarting, when booted up it shows the progress bar for a second then restarts and loads up fully.

Then the firmware software loads up like the firmware hadn't been installed.

odd indeed
 
csimon2 said:
Check out this link:http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070302210328928 I was having the exact same issues, and I applied the steps noted in that link and all has been good now for three weeks. I imagine this probably has something to do with the third-party RAM I installed in my C2D MBP 2.16GHz.
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eh? That doesn't seem to apply to my situation. I'm not losing power {I think, unless both adapter and battery are colluding}, and it's not about sleep time.

It's just that sometimes I wake up the machine and it has apparently rebooted (both logged-in users are logged out).
 
Long time listener, first time caller..

Ran xbench from fresh boot before and after update on my 2.16 imac. 157.89 before, 160.71 after which falls within the margin of error. Everything seems ok otherwise.


Cheers!
 
Darwin said:
Same story for my Mac Pro, the system shuts down rather then restarting, when booted up it shows the progress bar for a second then restarts and loads up fully.

Then the firmware software loads up like the firmware hadn't been installed.

odd indeed
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If its the same as with the Macbook, its meant to shut down...then hold the power button for about 10 seconds and let go...then wait :)
 
sailnavy said:
Update refused to install on my Macbook. Odd.:confused:
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Im having the same issue...

I have a MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM)

And this is what Apple says to look at after the update to make sure it took:

"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"


Mine is: MBP31.0070.B02

odd...
 
overcast said:
Thanks Captian Obvious, what do you think EFI is? Successor to BIOS.
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EFI is not a successor to BIOS. I don't understand why you want to keep pulling BIOS into this discussion when it has absolutely nothing to do with Macs. It is completely irrelevant.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface

The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. EFI is intended as a significantly improved replacement of the old legacy BIOS firmware interface historically used by all IBM PC compatible personal computers[1]. The EFI specification was originally developed by Intel, and is now managed by the Unified EFI Forum and is officially known as Unified EFI (UEFI).
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