Apple releases Snow Leopard performance upgrade

Posted on 15 October 2009 by


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Apple has released a “perfomance upgrade” for its Snow Leopard operating system.  According to the support document released along with the upgrade it’s supposed to addresses intermittent hard drive related pauses reported by a small number of customers.

The hardware possibly effected by the issue includes:

MacBook Air (Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009), iMac (20-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009), MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009), MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2009), MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008), MacBook Air (Late 2008), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008), iMac (24-inch, Early 2009), iMac (20-inch, Early 2009), Mac mini (Early 2009)

So open up software update and get to installing.  Read here for more information.

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  • http://www.geardiary.com Judie Lipsett

    Thanks for the heads up, Larry. I’ve had some stalls on my 17″ MBP which were confounding me, and hopefully this will clear them up. :-)

  • http://www.geardiary.com Carly Z

    I wonder if “performance update” is a euphemism for “won’t delete your data on a whim”

  • Christopher Gavula

    I just installed SL last night (I had to do a total reformat because my MBP had been updated MANY tines and was still on a pre-GUID partition scheme). LOL. I can’t wait to see what this update does now. SL is nice, overall, though!

  • http://www.geardiary.com Allen Hong

    I must be the last one to install Snow Leopard :P