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Apple releases MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.8

I got a notification from my MacBook Pro today that an EFI update was available. I hadn’t booted since last Friday, so that explains the lag in notification since this firmware update was actually released about 5 days ago. Anyway, Apple says the update eliminates Optical Drive noise when system boots or wake up from [...]

Apple’s Time Machine not playing well with VMware Fusion Virtual Machines

This is a quick blurb for those of you out there that use VMware fusion on your Mac. I have read that the same applies to Parallels, but your mileage may vary. At any rate, those that are familiar with virtual machines know that the virtual disk image files (vmdk, vhd, vdi, etc.) are single [...]

Apple to release OSX 10.6 – Snowleopard – In September

Following on the heels of Microsoft’s recent announcement of an October 22, 2009 release of Windows 7, Apple today indicated that the next release of ever popular OSX will be available in September. OSX 10.6, known as Snowleopard is an evolutionary build upon the Leopard named 10.5 release. Moreover, Apple will sell the release for [...]