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Are You Having Problems With Your MacBook Pro After the SATA Firmware Update?

By Matt Buchanan Published September 3, 2009, 12:19 pm ET

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EFI Firmware 1.7 was the update Apple released to boost the speed of some MacBook Pro‘s hard drive controller, which was capped at 1.5Gbps. But some people—72 pages worth—are saying it’s been making their machine crash and freeze and otherwise do bad things. How’s yours?

https://gizmodo.com/apple-releases-firmware-update-to-boost-new-macbook-pro-5300174

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