Apple today released MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.1 which includes fixes that enhance the stability of Lion Recovery from an Internet connection, and resolve issues with Apple Thunderbolt Display compatibility and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance on MacBook Air (mid 2011) models.
For more information about Lion Recovery, please visit http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/.
The MacBook Air EFI Update will update the EFI firmware on your notebook computer. Your computer’s power cord must be connected and plugged into a working power source. When your MacBookAir restarts, a gray screen will appear with a status bar to indicate the progress of the update. It will take several minutes for the update to complete. Do not disturb or shut off the power on your MacBookAir during this update.
Boot ROM or SMC Version Information: After this update has successfully completed, your Boot ROM Version will be: MBA41.88Z.0077.B08.1109011050
More info and download link (3.99 MB) here.
I ran this update through software update on my 2011 11 inch MBA and my boot rom version changed to MBA41.0077.B08 instead of MBA41.88Z.0077.B08.1109011050. Anyone else have this experience? To double check, I downloaded the update and tried running it again and it says the update is not supported on your system.
Exactly the same. It did update but the Boot ROM version is a slightly shortened version of what apple are saying. Either way – update worked and large difference seen here. Also seems to fix the speed it wakes from sleep and jump onto my wifi network! All good in my opinion.
Good to hear! The new MBA is already a work of engineering genius, and anything that makes it better is a bonus.
Apple has done many amazing things over the last decade – iPod, iPhone, and the iPad plus all of the associated software. But the MBA has been a “sleeper” for the first couple of years until this third generation really showed that mobile computing could combine quality, performance, and battery life in a sleek, lightweight package. The only compromise in the current generation is storage volume and the cost delta for going with the maximum option.
In the pas
“Our curiosity goes straight to the chassis. Right now if you set a MacBook Air next to a MacBook Pro the Pro looks like a boat anchor,” Reschke writes. “To fix that perception we can see Apple rolling out two chassis for the updated MacBook Pro line-up. The first would house the standard hard and super drives and look similar to today. But for those who want to look more MacBook Air-ish, a second design would not contain a super drive and only use the slimmer SSD.”