I have set my MacBook Air to dual boot Lion and Mountain Lion, is this firmware update (MacBook Air SMC firmware update 1.6) compatible with Lion? So if I boot the MacBook into Mountain Lion, accept the firmware update, and then boot into Lion will I have any problems?
MacBook Air (11-INCH, MID 2011), OS X Mountain Lion
If you are running dual operating systems then this update will not affect lion since it will not be part of the lion osx
You must install it in Mountain Lion. It enables Power Nap and it's for 10.8, so you aren't going to have problems
Thanks for the responses, but they really don't get me any further because they don't contain anything that I couldn't have inferred myself. I've been developing software for nearly thirty years and just because Lion won't be using this particular feature doesn't mean the change won't break something else.
What I really need is an assurance from Apple that this update has been fully tested on Lion.
I don't have a compelling need for this Power Nap feature so I won't install this update for the moment, unless Apple issues the assurance.
Lol, you better ask Apple then. Only users on here. You won't get anything official unless it's a link to an apple statement
Yeah, 🙂, I was hoping someone might have spied a statement online, I certainly haven't.
I dual boot Lion and ML with the new firmware. No issues, it works just fine.
2011 13" MBair.
Thanks, that's good to know. I'm just being über cautious, since there is no easy way of backing out a firmware upgrade.
I totally understand, firmware upgrades are a different animal. 😉
is this firmware update compatible with Lion?
