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Apple releases EFI firmware updates for 2011 Macs, crushes bugs
Author: Brittany Turner
If you’re anything like us, your inner-geek revels in hearing rare system beeps while holding down obscure key combos that only occur while updating low-level firmware. While much of those theatrics have since disappeared in the modern era, those of you with 2011 iMacs, Mac Minis, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs can at least relive some of that nostalgia as you update them to their latest respective EFI firmwares. There’s four versions (one for each machine, naturally), yet Apple says us they all address the same underlying problems, including improving “the reliability of booting from the network” in addition to addressing “an issue that can prevent HDCP authentication” after reboots. Finally, there’s improvements pertaining to “boot device selection when a USB storage device is hot-plugged.” Direct links to the respective support pages are below, or those seeking to avoid guesswork can simply go on ahead and fire up Software Update. Your call.
Apple releases EFI firmware updates for 2011 Macs, crushes bugs originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HP’s Internal $99 TouchPad Sale More Popular Than Expected, Crushes Web Server
Author: Randy Miller
People love the $ 99 TouchPad including HP employees. The TouchPad hit the HP’s employee purchasing program yesterday and potential buyers showed up en mass, promptly crashing the servers. It’s unclear how many TouchPads were sold, but my HP source didn’t manage to snag a cheap TouchPad yet. Instead, he received (and forwarded) an email detailing the problem and warning employees not to bother the call center with their woes. “Our site is too slow,” he said. HP might still have TouchPads reserved for employees as he hasn’t received an email stating they’re sold out.
Hopefully after HP takes care of its employees the company will release the last TouchPads to retailers. After the first batch dried up last month, most stores started wait lists after HP announced more were on their way. My daily routine involves checking several retailers’ websites in the hope that I stumble upon an active Buy Now link — apparently a good chunk of HP’s 300,000 employees are doing the same thing right now.
TouchPad works like no other tablet. It allows users to move back and forth between apps, see related activities grouped together automatically to stay organized, answer calls and texts from HP Pre3 smartphones, share websites with other HP webOS devices, experience more of the web with Adobe Flash Player 6 and 7.
TouchPad tablet includes essential productivity apps right out of the box. Users can collaborate with colleagues using Google Docs or Box.net, print wirelessly to compatible networked HP printers,…
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