Apple has released a few software updates for MacBooks and MacBook Pros which, amongst some more mundane fixes, finally solve a very annoying hardware problem. A problem which used to make this sound: “RAW-RUH-REE!”
Yes, along with an Airport update that fixes some connection issues, a double-team of EFI-firmware and SuperDrive updates do away with the annoying squawk that recent-vintage MacBooks would emit every time they woke from sleep (or restarted, if that is something you ever actually do with a Mac).
To finally quieten your machine, run the Software Update application and follow the instructions. There are some stern and rather scary warnings along the way about not interrupting the process, making sure the machine stays plugged in and something about waving a rubber chicken (I may have misread this last one). At the end of it all, you’ll have a Mac rigged for silent running, allowing you to pop open the lid in the quietest of PowerPoint presentations without waking your snoozing coworkers.
I have turned into a sleep-junky after applying the updates, popping the top of my MacBook up and down like the seat of a unisex toilet at a rock concert, and enjoying the sound of silence over and over again. I only wish I had recorded the garbage-disposal sound effect for nostalgia. Altogether now: “RAW-RUH-REE!”
SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0 [Apple]
