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Apple Issues Firmware Upgrade For MacBook Pro

Posted by timothy on from the there-there-here-you-go dept.

Lucas123 writes "After declining comment on an apparent downgrade to the serial ATA hard drive interface in its new MacBook Pros, from 3Gbps to 1.5Gbps, Apple today issued a firmware upgrade to fix a problem reported by 'a small number of customers' using drives based on the latest SATA specification. Apple warned that it has not shipped drives operating at the higher-speed specification, saying, 'While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbit/sec, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported.'"

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  1. Well that's an Apple product. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The lulz just work.

  2. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's the same strategy most companies use. They cripple their cheap stuff on purpose to make their more expensive products appealing. I mean, pushing ATOM computers to only have 1GB of memmory....rediculous.

  3. Apple products by Stumbles · · Score: 0, Troll

    are some of the most prettiest examples of broken by design... until enough chumps whine their hardware is crippled.

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  4. better get the anal lube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's just an Apple firmware update.

    I hope you faggots don't get AIDS celebrating...