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Apple Releases New Thunderbolt Firmware and Software Updates

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Apple yesterday released a pair of Thunderbolt updates, improving stability of the company's new Apple Thunderbolt Display and bringing compatibility with the display and other Thunderbolt-related improvements to machines running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

- Thunderbolt Display Firmware Update (923 KB):

This update improves the stability of the Apple Thunderbolt Display.

The updater application will be installed in the Utilities folder inside the Application folder and will be launched automatically when you close this installer.

Please follow the instructions in the updater application to complete the update process.

- Thunderbolt Software Update (Snow Leopard) (65.48 MB):

This update provides support for the Apple Thunderbolt Display and bug fixes for Thunderbolt device compatibility.

The Snow Leopard Thunderbolt update requires Mac OS X 10.6.8.

Top Rated Comments

189 months ago
I don't suppose that Thunderbolt firmware update for the Thunderbolt Display brings miniDP Display output compatibility?

I can check this with my older Dell 2498 which was not compatible via diaplayport to DVI connection.
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