This might not be the best news if you just snagged a 2019 model MacBook Air. Per the mighty Consomac, the 2019 MacBook Air released last week features a slower SSD than its 2018 counterpart. After running the trusty Blackmagic Disk Speed test, it turns out that the read speeds of the 2019 MacBook Air’s […]
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Never doubt a good firmware update. Late Thursday, Apple released its MacBook Pro Retina SMC Update 1.1 firmware update for its 15-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro notebook. The update, a 504 kilobyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Resolves a rare issue where users may experience slow frame rates when playing graphics-intensive games. […]
Updates: They tend to be useful. Late Wednesday, Parallels released version 7.0.14922.693916 of its Parallels Desktop virtualization software. The new update, a 289 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – New interface languages, including Czech, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional. – Option to choose Mac OS X Snow Leopard-style full screen mode […]
As well-intentioned as Apple may be, a number of users are reporting that the company’s latest Security Update (2010-001) is causing extremely slow start-up times and poor performance or crashing for several programs, including Skype, Firefox, and Photoshop CS3. Per CNET, a used identified as “Forgiss” reported the following issue on the Apple Support Discussions […]