Apple drops another bundle of updates

Stephen Withers
Friday, 28 September 2007 07:35

Business IT - Technology

Yesterday's batch of updates for Apple's iLife suite has been followed with one for iLife's iWeb, a set for iWork, a bunch of firmware updates, and a new version of iTunes for Windows.

Keynote (presentations), Pages (word processing) and Numbers (spreadsheet) all gain performance improvements. Keynote 4.0.1 also addresses issues with builds, Pages 3.0.1 takes care of some change-tracking problems, and Number 1.0.1 delivers improvements to tables.

iWeb 2.0.2 is supposed to address lingering problems upgrading sites created with version 1.x, along with publishing problems and compatibility issues. It requires the iLife Support 8.1 update issued yesterday.

Four firmware updates have been released for Core 2 Duo based models.

iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.2, MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.1 and MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.4 improve performance and reliability, and fixes issues with Boot Camp.

Mac Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.2 fixes several fan behavior and Boot Camp issues.

A fifth update - Xserve EFI Firmware Update 1.0 - improves the performance and reliability of Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors.

iTunes 7.4.3 for Windows specifically addresses issues with the initial setup of the iPod touch on some international versions of Windows including Japanese.

Updates are available via Software Update (Apple Software Update on Windows) or from Apple's support site.