Apple Offers Leopard/Snow Leopard Performance Updates
Posted 10/14/2009 at 4:46pm
| by Cory Bohon
Today Apple offered up an update to fix hard drive problems that some Mac users were reporting. The Performance Updates for both Leopard and Snow Leopard are supposed to, "[Address] intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of customers."
A few Mac users were experiencing these hard drive-related problems, and these problems have been reported for a while now.
You can download this update by visiting the Apple Support Downloads page for Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) or Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), or you can open Software Update (Apple menu > Software Update). Apple has also created a page detailing the steps needed for installing this update.
Not all Macs need this update. The Macs affected are:
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)