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***WARNING*** MBP update 4th May

pedrofan said:
No, I made several SMC and PR resets before the update and the boot time was about 18 seconds and I could see the rolling progression circle to make almost two and a half cicles. And it even lasted 23 seconds without this terminal commands:

sudo chown root:admin /
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
sudo kextcache -system-caches

Now the circle DOESN'T EVEN APPEAR. I'm now on the battery and the boot and the reset times are almost the same. I'm going to plug it to see if the boot time improves.
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Interesting. I thought you were talking about a drastic improvement not less then two seconds. 😀
 
Pentad said:
I'm not trying to knock on the OP but I wish the thread name would change. Every time there is an update from Apple, one person starts a thread about how the update is Skynet trying to start Armageddon because it didn't work on their machine.

It never occurs to them that it might be their machine that is trouble. I wish people would investigate before starting overreactive threads with asterisks and ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

You know, give Apple some credit. They really do test these updates. Are they perfect all the time? No, but statically speaking you could update for the rest of your life and you will never have a problem.

The SSD and TRIM issue is not officially supported by Apple so I think Caveat Emptor there...

How about next time a post asking if anyone else is having issues with the update rather than suggesting the entire release from Apple will destroy your machine...

-P
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Apologies for the offense caused

Simply trying to catch attention of people. In owning a mac for 7 years, this has simply not happened to me before, and whilst I do not expect nuclear armageddon or the arrival of terminators to occur, this update has caused me some trouble for no obvious reason. Although I agree the probability of both these events occurring simultaneously but independently is a possibility, it is quite rare. I have now spent hours trying to resolve this unnecessary situation and am not at the point where my monitor is sorted but my network remains trashed.....streaming to either airport expresses or ATV is too slow to be of use, and the transfer times from my MBP to my NAS have gone from 8mins to 30 mins for identical file types and sizes...
 
Big problems here

The EFI update has broken clamshell mode on my computer, as well as creating an extremely glitchy wake from sleep when running dual displays. This with an external DVI display using the DisplayPort-DVI adapter from Apple.
 
dblissmn said:
The EFI update has broken clamshell mode on my computer, as well as creating an extremely glitchy wake from sleep when running dual displays. This with an external DVI display using the DisplayPort-DVI adapter from Apple.
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You will have far more luck filing a bug report with apple... another member was having trouble with external displays too! 😀
 
Believe me, I already have: it has been escalated to engineering. PRAM, SMC, etc. —*nothing is shaking the problem.
 
dblissmn said:
Believe me, I already have: it has been escalated to engineering. PRAM, SMC, etc. —*nothing is shaking the problem.
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bummer.. do you have a time machine backup by chance? Might be able to go back a day or two before the update and see if it at least fixes the problem for now....
 
One more thing, switching of graphic card with gfxCardStatus 2.0.1 seems having some trouble. Custom wallpaper will be replaced by blue background. Does anyone experienced this?
 
I updated and did notice a faster shut down and boot up with Apple 256 SSD. OSX Lion Preview 2 (and developer updates) boots much faster as well.

Temps remained the same, no other notable changes.
 
dblissmn said:
The EFI update has broken clamshell mode on my computer, as well as creating an extremely glitchy wake from sleep when running dual displays. This with an external DVI display using the DisplayPort-DVI adapter from Apple.
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Mine did this out of box months ago. When waking, or sometimes even booting, with the apple dvi-mDP adapter, the laptop would blink on/off 6-7 times before a picture would pop up on the external (main).

I have not tested out whether it still does it or not, but I have a hunch that that was the problem the updates addressed. I had two, 1.3 ( i think) and 2.1.
 
***WARNING*** OMG OMG OMG ***WARNING***

I updated and everything is running great. Seems snappier and the SL update seems to have helped 3D graphics performance a lot. SCII is running really well. (in clamshell mode too).
 
Updated the Firmware on my 2011 17" Macbook Pro yesterday. Now not only do I get faster boots but my sustained and Peak "Writes" are now 576MB/s and 592MB/s on a 100Gig File with a single Vertex 3 240GB SSD.

Here's a screen shot. Note this is 83gigs into creating a file and it's still at 576.7MB/s and the 592MB/s peak writes? Explain how the peak speed also jumped above the 550 MB/s sequential reads and 500 MB/s write specs?

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dgitalchaos said:
I updated and did notice a faster shut down and boot up with Apple 256 SSD. OSX Lion Preview 2 (and developer updates) boots much faster as well.

Temps remained the same, no other notable changes.
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I thought the latest update to DP2 wasn't working on 2011 MBPs has that been fixed?
 
Mine upgraded fine, panicked a little once the beep sounded, but after 5 mins it was back to the desktop and no problems.
 
I finally restarted and yeah reboots on my Vertex 2 have gotten even faster. There's no spinning thing at the beginning anymore, just the apple gray screen and then boots into osx. Nice! Probably just saves a second or two haha
 
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