Late yesterday Apple released three separate EFI firmware updates which brought the company’s Lion Internet Recovery to the early 2010 Macbook Pro, mid-2010 iMac, and late 2010 MacBook Air.
As you may remember, Apple introduced this Internet Recovery on 2011’s MacBook Air and Mac mini models, which were released alongside Lion at that time. Because Lion’s main distribution channel is the the Mac App Store, and hard drives are known to fail from time to time, Internet Recovery acts as a minimal bootable install in the system’s firmware, which allows the machine to connect to the internet, download and install Lion.
Apple is slowly adding this feature to older Macs, with a large number of major revision in 2011’s hardware, and some of 2010’s hardware update to include this feature. That said, the Mac Pro has yet to receive this kind of treatment. A sign of the times I suppose.
At any rate, the MacBook Air Update can be downloaded from Apple’s website here, and is 2.98MB in size. The iMac update can be found here, and is 3.02MB in size. Lastly, the MacBook Pro update can be found here, and is 3.18MB in size.
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