Saturday, June 30, 2007

Unprecedented iPhone interest at Howard Forums

It seems those guys over at Howard Forums are generating a TON of traffic on their Apple iPhone forum. While most of their mobile phone manufacturer forums usually have at most a few hundred people viewing them, the Apple iPhone board currently has over 15000 viewers.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Apple releases SuperDrive Firmware Update 2.1

Apple today released SuperDrive Firmware Update 2.1 for some of its MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The machines included are:
MacBook Pro Core Duo (15" 1.83GHz, 2.0GHz, 2.16GHz)
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo (15" 2.16GHz, 2.33GHz)
MacBook Core Duo (13" 1.83GHz, 2.0GHz)
MacBook Core 2 Duo (13" 1.83GHz, 2.0GHz)
It's not clear which drives are included, but in the very least it includes the Matsushita UJ-857 drive. The update changes the firmware on the drive from HBE4 to HBEA, to improve "readability of certain CD media".