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EFI Firmware 2.2 patches MacBook Air (mid 2011) Thunderbolt issues

By | October 26, 2011, 6:20pm PDT

Summary: MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.2 which fixes issues with the current-generation, (mid 2011) MacBook Air related to Thunderbolt Display compatibility and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance

Apple has released MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.2 which fixes issues with the current-generation, (mid 2011) MacBook Air related to Thunderbolt Display compatibility and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance.

This update fixes several issues to improve the stability of MacBook Air (mid 2011) computers and is recommended for all users.

This update includes fixes delivered in MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.1 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.

I’m going to install it now and will report back if there are any issues.

MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.2 screenshot - Jason O'Grady

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: EFI Firmware 2.2 patches MacBook Air (mid 2011) Thunderbolt issues
Haberkusagi Updated - 1st Nov
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WiFi issue finally resolved with this patch
Neurobit Updated - 26th Oct
Thanks for the heads up!
This fixed the (intermittent) WiFi issue that I was experiencing at home when waking my MBA from sleep.
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RE: EFI Firmware 2.2 patches MacBook Air (mid 2011) Thunderbolt issues
iomkeith 27th Oct
Preview still crashes though. Lion had to be re-built on my three week old Macbook Air after a random crash left it unable to complete its re-boot. I've installed the patch but the Preview problem continues. I've had more crashes in three weeks than my old Macbook had in five years sad Not what I was expecting.

Looking at forums, there are lots of random problems reported, is Lion Apple's equivalent of Microsoft's Vista?
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RE: EFI Firmware 2.2 patches MacBook Air (mid 2011) Thunderbolt issues
Champ_Kind 31st Oct
@iomkeith Preview works file on my 2008 MBP but crashes on my Hackintosh, so that issue is hit or miss.
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RE: EFI Firmware 2.2 patches MacBook Air (mid 2011) Thunderbolt issues
Kiljoy616 29th Oct
I had plenty of issue with the Macbook Air. I reinstalled OS X Lion from scratch and almost every problem went away, the only one still left is the issue of waking up from sleep of the external monitor, that seems to have still remained no matter what I do.
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RE: EFI Firmware 2.2 patches MacBook Air (mid 2011) Thunderbolt issues
Haberkusagi Updated - 1st Nov
Ultimately add, please don?t hesitate to haber contact me via e-mail. All e-mails I receive are haberler as confidential ? unless you want a mention/credit line, spor of course.) bebek check out and ultimately add, dunya please hesitate to turkey contact me via e-mail. turkiye All e-mails I receive are gebelik as confidential ? unless you want a mention/credit line, of course.) dogum My favorite anecdote from the 60 Minutes gebelik planlama interview with Isaacson is when baba he discusses Steves cocuk mortality with him. saglik Steve first talks egitim about the afterlife and how hamilelik the wisdom that youve accumulated lives on, son haberler but then Steve guncel haberler pauses and goes on to butun haberler say but sometimes I feel that its like an on/off switch. gelisim
Click. And youre gone. And thats why I dont like putting on/off switches on son dakika Apple devices.

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