Performance Update (Snow Leopard) addresses intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of customers.
Products Affected
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
Ever since I bought my mid-2009 17" MacBook Pro (with the 3.06 GHz processor and the 500 GB 7200 rpm-SATA HD) I've had occasional pauses with the spinning beach ball. Frustrating. I'm running Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6.1.
I downloaded and installed Performance Update 1.0 using Software Update. The problem has disappeared! All is well!
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I only ever had rare and random beach-balls (mostly during open file dialogs), installed this update, 2 15-20 seconds stalls in a matter of 5 minutes. This an anti-performance update for me.
June 2009, MBP 17", 3.06Ghz/8GB RAM/160GB X-25M G2 SSD
This is really annoying now. This package contains IOAHCIFamily.kext, I tried rebuilding the extensions cache, on Snow Leopard, `sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions` will cause the OS to rebuild the cache. Reboot.
But after startup, I go through two 20+ seconds pauses. The first pause beach-balls. The second pause, the cursor remains the black pointer. After that, the pauses seem to go away. I am thinking of restoring the old driver from my time machine backup...
I guess I should file a bug report with Apple. It never ends anymore.. The transition to the dark side of software is happening. haha. j/k. hopefully Apple can get this worked out (sooner than later).
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Performance Update (Snow Leopard) addresses intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of customers.
Products Affected
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)
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Dana reviewed on 16 Oct 2009
I downloaded and installed Performance Update 1.0 using Software Update. The problem has disappeared! All is well!
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June 2009, MBP 17", 3.06Ghz/8GB RAM/160GB X-25M G2 SSD
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But after startup, I go through two 20+ seconds pauses. The first pause beach-balls. The second pause, the cursor remains the black pointer. After that, the pauses seem to go away. I am thinking of restoring the old driver from my time machine backup...
I guess I should file a bug report with Apple. It never ends anymore.. The transition to the dark side of software is happening. haha. j/k. hopefully Apple can get this worked out (sooner than later).
Model: MBP 17-inch (June 2009) 3.06Ghz/8GB RAM/160GB Intel X-25M G2 SSD
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Giraffe6044 reviewed on 14 Oct 2009
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(SnowLeo 10.6.1 - Mac mini Early 2009 - Fujitsi 120 GB Drive)