In his 4.5 (out of 5) mouse review, Jason Snell (macworld.com) points out that the iPhone 3GS offers “a major step forward in terms of the iPhone’s technological underpinnings,” one that results in “indisputably faster device, not just at some tasks, but at every task.” And in detailing the many new features it introduces, Snell concludes that iPhone 3GS “is still leading the pack, in most cases by a wide margin.”

“Video recording? Voice dialing? Better battery life? Zippier performance? Multimedia messaging? Check on all of them,” says Ryan Kim (sfgate.com) in his review of the new iPhone 3GS. From its built-in video editing to its digital compass, support for Voice Commands, increased RAM, and greatly increased speed, Kim explains how iPhone 3GS “cements Apple’s place at the top” of the smartphone market.

Filed under: Software Update, Apple, Macbook Pro

While most of the focus of WWDC fell on the iPhone 3GS, the MacBook Pro line got some love from Apple last week as well, with several upgraded features on the 15" model and a re-branding of the 13" model from MacBook to MacBook Pro.

The Achilles' heel of the new upgrades, as reported last week, was that the MacBook Pro's SATA interface was limited to 1.5 Gbps in the latest models, down from 3.0 Gbps in previous models. Although this wasn't likely to be an issue unless you replaced the hard drive with a high-speed SSD, it still seemed like somewhat of a boneheaded move to downgrade the SATA interface without sufficient cause.

Today Apple has released MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7, which makes the issue moot. The update allows the SATA interface to work at full speed once again.

If you have one of the affected models of MacBook Pro, grab this update either via Software Update, or else go here (requires OS X 10.5.7). More info on the firmware update can be found on its support page.

Thanks to reader Joachim Bean for sending this in.

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MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 - 3.35MB

MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbps, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported.

Further details are available in the related support document.

Apple on Monday released EFI firmware updates for both the mid-2009 MacBook Pros and the early 2009 iMacs.

Microsoft ci riprova. Ebbene, pur di far cresce il suo neo motore di ricerca Bing ha stretto degli interessanti accordi con l’operatore AT&T, coloro i quali detengolo l’esclusiva sulla vendita degli iPhone in USA.

L’operatore concederà uno sconto del 35% a tutti coloro che accederanno al sito AT&T attraverso il motore di ricerca di Redmond per comprare un telefonino nello store online, e quindi anche il nostro iPhone 3G S.

Basterà avere un acount sul sito AT&T Wireless e tramite bing.com ricercare tale sito web, cliccare sul banner dedicato allo sconto del 35% e procedere con le altre fasi di acquisto.

I cittadini americani pagheranno di meno l’iPhone grazie alla figura meno improbabile di tutte, vale a dire Microsoft.

E’ buffo ricordare le parole dette tempo fa dal CEO Steve Ballmer

Non ci sono possibilità che l’iPhone possa guadagnare delle significative porzioni di mercato

Ricordiamo inoltre che questo poco importa a noi Italiani, in quanto in ogni caso saremo impossibilitati ad acquistare l’iPhone negli Stati Uniti, visto il contratto obbligatorio da stipulare.

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Ecamm is shipping its BT-1 Bluetooth webcam, which it first introduced at Macworld Expo in January.

Apple ha rilasciato un aggiornamento software per i nuovi MacBook Pro che sono stati venduti a partire da questo mese. L’aggiornamento si occupa del firmware EFI che utilizza SATA 3Gbps. L’aggiornamento ha un peso di 3,35 MB. Al termine del download troverete l’update in Applicazioni > Utility.

Articolo tratta da: Melamorsicata.it

Aggiornamento per il firmware EFI dei MacBook Pro

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