System Management Control firmware updates are available for certain Intel-based Mac models.
The SMC Firmware Update addresses intermittent boot issues.
The SMC Firmware Update 1.0 is a System Management Control (SMC) firmware update for certain Intel-based computers, including iMac (Early 2006), Mac mini (Early 2006) and MacBook Pro (15-inch) computers.
Installation instructions can be found in Apple's Knowledge Base. Note that two of the three download pages have bad links to the Knowledge Base article at the time of this posting, so use this link until those pages are corrected.
Update: According to this forum thread, the update seems to be crippling some users' clock speeds.
Wednesday June 10, 2026 1:34 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol
During its WWDC 2026 keynote on Monday, Apple briefly showed a slide with hundreds of new features and enhancements coming across iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27. All of the software updates are currently available as developer betas, and they are expected to be released to all users in September.
We already highlighted some of the key new features from the ...
Apple's annual WWDC developers conference is drawing to a close, but there is still a lot to look forward to in the second half of the year.
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If you pay for extra iCloud storage on your iPhone, beyond the 5GB included for free, you might receive two more perks on iOS 27 at no additional cost.
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