According to reports submitted to
Xlr8yourmac, readers indicate to have compatibility issue with 2.5" HD Samsung Spinpoint M5S 250GB. While the drive works perfectly fine when installed in an external FireWire enclosure, it is not recognized once in the first generation of MacBook or MacBook Pro.
If the problem is not fully understood, as it might involve firmware or even original NAPA motherboard, we decided to publish a quick warning in case you decided to buy this HD for your MacBook over the week-end.
Couple of weeks after the US Refurb Stores, the other worldwide Refurb Stores have been updated, with a new design, providing an easier way to access special offers avialable on Apple-branded and third-party products.
The shortest way to the refreshed Apple Refurb Store:
@ Refurb Store
After the "MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.3", Apple released a Firmware restoration CD dedicated to Intel-based Mac. As illustrated by manu Notes, such a CD should not be used without a clear understanding of its function.
The Firmware Restoration CD can restore the firmware of an Intel-based Macintosh computer.
Note: Restoring your firmware will reset some of your computer’s preferences to defaults.
You can only use this to restore the firmware after an interrupted or failed update. If your computer is already in this state, you’ll need to download the software and create the CD on another Macintosh computer, or you can take your computer to an Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider to restore your firmware. This CD can be created on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers.
Note: This CD cannot be used to return an Intel-based Macintosh computer’s firmware to a previous version if a successful update has already been performed.
To restore your computer’s firmware, you must first create a CD using the disk image named “FirmwareRestorationCD.dmg” by following these steps:
1. Open Disk Utility (located at /Applications/Utilities).
2. Click the Burn icon or select the “Burn…” menu item from the Images menu.
3. Navigate to where FirmwareRestorationCD.dmg is located, and click the Burn button.
4. Insert a blank recordable CD.
5. Click the Burn button to create the Firmware Restoration CD. The files are burned to the disc.
Next, use the Firmware Restoration CD to restore your Firmware:
6. Ensure that the computer you are trying to restore is plugged into an AC outlet.
7. Turn on the computer and continue holding down the power button until the LED blinks rapidly followed immediately by a successive series of blinks (3 quick blinks, 3 slow blinks, 3 quick blinks). Insert the Firmware Restoration CD while the lights are blinking, then release the Power button.
8. Insert the Firmware Restoration CD. You will hear a long tone once the recovery process has begun.
A progress bar appears beneath an Apple logo on a gray screen. The progress bar indicates the firmware is being updated. Do not unplug, shut down, or restart the computer during the update or you will need to start the restoration process again beginning with step 6.
The computer will restart automatically after the firmware is updated.
This information is also available at the following url: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n303469
A CD to burn and store in a safe place together with the instructions.
According to
Digitimes, Apple would have selected Wintek, a Taiwan-based company, as the panel supplier for the new iPod video expected to be launched next month. The iPod 6G is rumored to feature a touch screen panel similar to the iPhone's one.
IPod fans should remain calm, as the new iPod will come one day or the other, so no reason to get excited, even though the current model is currently scoring a record in iPod life as being the longest revision.
When visiting the Common UNIX Printing System website, there is a short news entitled: "CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc.". While the news was published on July 11th, it seems that the deal was settled down at the beginning of this year:
Created at 14:49 Jul 11, 2007 by mike
In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.
CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.
CUPS is used by Apple in OS X for managing printing and files queuing.
This EFI Firmware update fixes a display issue on 2.2/2.4GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro models.
This update requires MacBook Pro Software Update 1.0.
Once installed; you will have to launch the "MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.3" located in Documents:
It remains unclear what would be the corrected display issue, it could be the yellowish rendering for which we have been investigating and publishing news couple of days ago.
