{"id":10843,"date":"2011-06-28T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:33:21","slug":"10-6-8-the-little-update-that-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/10843-10-6-8-the-little-update-that-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"10.6.8: The Little Update That Didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1434\" title=\"supdate\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/supdate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/>Apple released the OS X 10.6.8 update last week. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/DL1400\">the Knowledge Base article<\/a> on this update:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion<\/li>\n<li>Resolve an issue that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit<\/li>\n<li>Improve support for IPv6<\/li>\n<li>Improve VPN reliability<\/li>\n<li>Identify and remove known variants of Mac Defender<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2011\/06\/27\/mac-os-x-10-6-8-brings-trim-support-for-apple-ssds-graphics-improvements\/\">a post on MacRumors<\/a>, there are a couple of other additions, as well. First is the enabling of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TRIM\">TRIM<\/a> support for Apple-branded SSDs. The other unannounced addition seems to be a boost in graphics performance nearly across the board.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s great to see that Apple is moving towards the future with many aspects of its OS, <strong>there are several items they have not addressed yet, specifically on the 2011 MacBook Pros.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>10.6.8 Doesn\u2019t Resolve 6Gb\/s SSD Problems.<\/h3>\n<p>This has been discussed quite extensively both <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9754-owc-offers-fix-for-2011-17-mbp-sata-problems\">here on the OWC Blog<\/a> and elsewhere. If there were a software resolution to this problem, this would have been an ideal time for Apple to release it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this doesn\u2019t appear to be the case. Testing has shown that,<strong> even after the 10.6.8 update, the performance anomalies that weren\u2019t resolved by our shielding kit still existed<\/strong>. We\u2019re keeping our fingers crossed that some sort of firmware-based solution is made available.<\/p>\n<h3>No Change for 2011 Optical Bays stuck at 3Gb\/s.<\/h3>\n<p>Oddly, <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/10433-macbook-pro-2011-models-and-sata-3-0-6-0gbs-update-5272011\">some of the optical bays in the 2011 17&#8243; MacBook Pros run at SATA 2.0 (3Gb\/s) speeds, while others run at SATA 3.0 (6Gb\/s) speeds<\/a>. There\u2019s no rhyme or reason to which Intel 6 chipset you get and you won&#8217;t know until you run System Profiler and see if the Link Speed shows 3Gb\/s or 6Gb\/s. This makes installing a <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/Mercury_6G\/\">Mercury Electra 6G or Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD<\/a> in your 2011 MacBook Pro\u2019s optical bay somewhat of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NRQsQxB6a7s\">Charlie Bucket finding the Golden Ticket<\/a> proposition. <strong>The SSD will work either way, but your speed will be limited if you\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hY-FaTuuglo\">one of the unfortunate ones<\/a> who only got an optical bay with 3Gb\/s capabilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>TRIM enabled for Apple SSDs, but not for anybody else.<\/h3>\n<p>Admittedly, this one isn\u2019t so bad. TRIM is nice if you\u2019ve got a \u201clesser\u201d solid state drive, but <strong>SandForce-based drives, like <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/shop\/SSD\/OWC\/\">all OWC SSDs<\/a> are, don\u2019t need it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wear-leveling, block management, and real-time data redundancies of the SandForce controller gives you the same (indeed, <em>better<\/em>) level of performance from your SSD that TRIM support provides to other drives.<\/p>\n<p>There are hacks out there that enable TRIM support for 10.6.x, but with the aforementioned advantages that the SandForce processor gives, we really don\u2019t recommend using it with our SSDs; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O3H7l3RZEik\">we don&#8217;t need it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Room for one more?<\/h3>\n<p>Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/how-to-buy\/\">just around the corner<\/a>. Traditionally, updates for an OS stop after the new version is released, or shortly thereafter. That raises the question: If (and, admittedly, that\u2019s a mighty big \u201cif\u201d) Apple releases an update to enable\/fix these SATA 3.0 issues, will it be in a 10.6.9 release, in a 10.7.x update, or in a combination of the two?<\/p>\n<p>While the latter is the most likely and most beneficial to all, only time can tell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple released the OS X 10.6.8 update last week. 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