If you happen to be having problems booting up your mid-2010 model iMac, Apple may have a solution for you in the guise of the iMac Hard Drive Firmware Update 1.0 — provided that you have the exact model that it’s capable of patching.
Apple released the iMac Hard Drive Firmware Update 1.0 on Monday, a seemingly modest 767KB download aimed at solving some booting problems for certain iMac models from last year’s lineup.
“This firmware update fixes a hard drive issue that may prevent some iMac (21.5-inch and 27-inch, Mid 2010) systems from booting properly,” reads the awesomely brief note on Apple’s support website.
In addition to having the correct screen size, you’ll also need Mac OS X 10.6.7 installed — and apparently, there’s some other mysterious requirement as well. We tried the firmware patch on our 27-inch iMac Core i7 and got the following not so helpful alert:
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Anyone else have any luck applying Apple’s latest iMac fix? Did it resolve any booting issues you may have had? Sound off in the comments.
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