Early Thursday, Apple released Performance Update 1.0, a firmware fix for Macs experiencing occasional hard drive stalls under the Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6 operating systems.
The patch, a 300 kilobyte download available via Software Update, affects the following machines:
– 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)
The update requires Mac OS X 10.5 or Mac OS X 10.6.1 (for the Snow Leopard version) to install and run.
If you’ve tried the update, please let us know how it worked in the comments.
4 replies on “Apple Releases Performance Update 1.0 Patch for Certain Macs”
I was having CONSTANT stalls lasting for 10-60 seconds at a time every 15 minutes or so every single day no matter what I did. I was becoming infuriated at the fact that nothing I did seemed to help. Though ever since the update, my 13 Inch MacBook Pro has been running like water. I am extremely pleased. 😀
Since the update, Windows XP hangs in Bootcamp every time that it tries to ‘sleep’ my 13″ MacBook Pro.
Not sure, but I think now my hard drive will not sleep and battery performance has been severely compromised. Tired PRAM and SMC reset but no luck.
So far, so good. It has either entirely fixed, or at least mainly fixed my problem on a month-old MBP. I was getting random pinwheels, and my Mac was quite unusable part of the time. Very frustrating. So, I’m thrilled the Apple has done something about it!