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Apple Working on Software Update for MacBook Pro Hard Drive Issues

harddrivesCNET has reported that Apple acknowledge the problem on hard drives of macbook pro on 500 GB 7200 RPM and promised a softwarre fix to address the issue although no time frame for release was given.

“We are aware of the issue and are working on a software update,” Apple representative Bill Evans, told CNET News on Monday. He gave no time frame for the release of the software update.


17macbookpro_270x153Users have been reporting that drives periodically make a “beeping” noise that is frequently accompanied by brief freezes of their systems.

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3 comments

1 mike { 09.01.09 at 5:00 am }

The 250 GB HD of my macbook pro 13″ also has a problem;just bought it barely a month ago. Very disappointing!

2 mike { 09.01.09 at 5:07 am }

bothersome……………..

3 mike { 09.01.09 at 5:24 am }

………it freezes during start up, have done everything upto having to resort in reinstalling OS after which it started up but since then im encountering brief freezing and takes so much time to copy and paste files. :(

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