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Apple Releases Firmware Updates for 'Late 2008' Portables

If they overheat now how would SL make it better?

Bryanj026 said:
maybe all these graphics problems are coming from the transition for everyone to adapt to opencl technology. hopefully when snow leopard is released we will all be Wow'd with the performance of our machines
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If the problems reported hereare overheating, it does look like it, then how would using the GPU even more help the issue? If anything the problems described here are just another example of a cronic design problem with Apple hardware. That being under designing the thermal solution.

The thing is this thecurrent MB & MBP lookedlike ideal machines to support SL technology. Now I'm not to sure. I don't want to jump the gun here but we already have people indicating that thermal issues are not resolved. The question then becomes whom is to blame. Is it Apple and it's hardware & software thermal solution or crappy hardware from Nvidia?

I guess the old wisdom of never buying a gen one Apple device still applies.


Dave
 
TheSVD said:
wtf!
so ive ordered my MBP, and its just gunna be messed up from gaming and im gunna have to control fans myself?
not too happy with that :mad:
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Do not game on a mac!! You will be much happier if you follow this rule.
 
yeah i came home from work and:

macbook turned itself off and battery was all gone (while still plugged in). I left it alone for maybe 20 hours.

hopefully firmware will fix this.
 
Wow, they really did tweak the fans a lot.

Before, I would encode video on my Macbook Pro for a good 10 minutes for it to hit 105C before the fans would kick in. It would just take it's dear time to throttle up the fans. Now, it comes in at around 65-70C which I am much more happy. Translating 100C = 212F which is something I don't ever want my Macbook Pro to hit ever again.
 
Cozmo85 said:
EFI update showed up on software update. installed and rebooted and then the smc update showed up. This is on aluminum 2.4 macbook
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I don't see anything in software update. I just received my MB six days ago. Any way to tell if they're already installed?

Update: Never mind, I see they are already installed:
Boot ROM Version: MB51.0073.B06
SMC Version: 1.32f8
 
During second update

During the SMC update my fan blew soo loud. I've like never even heard my fan before, but during the update it was extremely loud.
 
While I've played games that haven't crashed, Quake 4 and Max Payne, the fans are spinning quite fast. Not sure if it's at the full 6K, but it seems to be enough speed to maintain stability.

I wish I knew why it was only doing this in some games (at least for me).
 
Just updated....for some reason CPU is up to 85 C with just iTunes and Safari open??? Fan's are spinning up accordingly however....istat doesn't show anything CPU intensive going on! Weird....
 
G4DP said:
This forum would also be far more civil, if ignorant, personal attacks like the one above were not made. The fact is all Apples computers seem to require an update within two months of being released. The person to which the above comment was made has a valid point. If Apple took the time and care that they used to such immediate updates would not be required.

Apple has truly gone from one end of the spectrum to the other.
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you don't know much about software development, do you?

No one can write bug free software, especially when the code is massive as it is with operating systems.
 
Is the Air update for the older Airs as well? If it is, I have upgrade my father's computer as he does not do his own updates :(
 
feels like nothing happened at all
didnt notice any fan revving or cpu temp change but the firmware was confirmed updated

edit:
nvm that was only part 1 of the update
part 2, during the smc status bar, the fan revved up like no other

right now my cpus at 40C and fan started around 2500 rpm, then 3000 rpm..... wow as i was typing this.. it all went down to 2000 rpm

so far so good :)
 
i did the update a few hours ago..... and now i just realized that my sound card does not work. when i go into system properties, only the digital output is there....

any one else? im pissed

EDIT:
i just got it working, i put in headphones and it switched the output over from the digital out. odd.
 
hopefully this will fix my magsafe power light from going out all of the time! and on my dads laptop, it flashes constantly
 
I have a UNI MBP 2.4 that I bought on Sunday and when I try to download the update it says I already have them.. but the Boot Rom is not the correct version :confused:

Boot ROM Version: MBP51.0074.B01
SMC Version: 1.33f8
 
My MBP 2.53/4GB/320GB Stock is not preforming any differently.

ISTAT:
CPU 110
FANS 2000RPM
GPU 101

I came up in two sprate updates, and My fans did go up to full throttle as others have reported.

I have also had no graphics issues, no sleep issues (besides consuming a lot of battery life). But, I have yet to connect an external display to my pro....

All is well...:)
 
VLC, iTunes, Entourage and Safari open and CPU is at 62C, RPMs at 1999, which is not much different than before. If anything, it may be a little higher temp.
Other than that, I have to say that my system feels a little snappier than before the update.
 
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