Apple Fixes Slow SATA Glitch in MacBook Pros

[Vincent Ferrari]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacBook_Pro_EFI_Firmware_Update_1_7_' target='_blank'>http://support.apple.com/downloads/...are_Update_1_7_</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbps, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported."</em></p><p><img height="324" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1245758637.usr18053.jpg" width="427" /></p><p>It may have been reported by a small number of users, but it affects every single purchaser of the new MacBook Pro!&nbsp; Come on Apple, don't minimize this one.&nbsp; It's a biggie.</p><p>I also like how they CYA'ed with the "unsupported" bit in the description for the download.&nbsp; When did Apple become Microsoft?</p>

[doogald]

When I read this article it seemed to me that you are suggesting that this is an unsupported download. My daughter's 13" MBP arrived yesterday and the 1.7 firmware update was one of the many on the list in Software Update, and it installed just fine. What they are saying in that support article is that MBPs do not use 3 Gbps drives, and the use of them is unsupported (which begs the question about the specs of the SSD drives that they do offer, which are the only drives that would be running at 3 Gbps in a 2.5" drive anyway.)

[Vincent Ferrari]

When I read this article it seemed to me that you are suggesting that this is an unsupported download.

Not at all; but it does perform a function on hardware that Apple seems to readily admit they don't support and haven't tested yet.