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September 27, 2007

updates

Keep ‘em comin’: iWork, EFI firmware updates; iPod Touch 1.1.1, iTunes 7.4.3 (Windows)

Posted Sep. 27, ’07, 2:22 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Software » Updates
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Apple, you’re wearing me out. I know you loved that stupid software-gets-promoted analogy I used yesterday, but there’s no way I’m keeping it going. I killed the joke last time. It’s dead, alright? Dead. And seriously, you can’t spread these releases out a little? It’s like you’ve got Irritable Update Syndrome.

Anyway, aside from the incredibly-hyped iPhone 1.1.1 update (whatever happened to iPhone 1.1?), Apple released a bunch of other updates more in-line with the focus of this blog. Giving me more work. Thanks. Here’s the Update Rundown™:

iWork ‘08: Keynote 4.0.1 (32.4 MB) focuses on build issues, Pages 3.0.1 (29.1 MB) on change tracking, and Numbers 1.0.1 (27.3 MB) on tables. And, of course, they all claim to improve performance (wouldn’t be an Apple update otherwise).

Apple also released iPod Touch 1.1.1 (I still can’t get over that version number), which is only said to include “bug fixes.” But, according to MacRumors, it may actually be fixing the “Negative Blacks” screen problem for some users. It also brings the version numbers of Apple’s two OS X-based mobiles into sync.

Then there’s EFI firmware updates for the iMac (3.9MB), Mac Pro (2.8MB), MacBook (1.7MB), MacBook Pro (2.8MB), and Xserve (1.5MB). Brief summary by MR:

  • Improves performance and reliability of Intel Core 2 Duo Processors (iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro)
  • Improves performance and reliability of Dual-Core Intel Xeon Procesors (Xserve)
  • Fixes issues with Boot Camp (iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro)
  • Fixes fan behavior (Mac Pro)

And not really MacUser material, but might be of interest to some of you: iTunes 7.4.3 is now available for Windows, which “addresses issues with the initial setup of the iPod touch on some international versions of Windows.” iTunes for the Mac, however, remains at the 7.4.2 mark.

Is that all? Yes? OK, I’m goin’ on break.

[via MacRumors and Macworld]


3 Comments

Andre Da Costa said:

Not a great time to be a Mac user.

Darn, I just saw the 7.4.3 for Windows users. Oh, man, one more iTunes update? I'm getting sick of this!

o_O

September 27, 2007 5:49 PM
MTigerV said:

This EFI update has to be the creepiest update I've ever done. That weird noise made me jump right out of my chair. Better call your non-techie mac users, they're gonna think they broke something!

September 28, 2007 12:18 AM
George said:

Hopefully, it somehow magically made Safari less prone to beachballing. It gets a little old having safari lock up and in the process drag the entire system to a crawl in the process. What's even sadder is when it decides to freeze when I try to quit out of it. I'm not sure which is worse: Safari at home that freezes up almost daily or Internet Explorer at work that hardly ever crashes but lacks Flash.

September 28, 2007 8:13 AM

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