{"id":104425,"date":"2014-06-18T10:40:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T08:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=104425"},"modified":"2014-06-18T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T08:44:20","slug":"macbook-air-update-fixes-battery-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/104425-macbook-air-update-fixes-battery-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Air update fixes battery problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of MacBook Air machines manufactured between mid 2013 and mid 2014 can now download an update from Apple to fix a battery problem that had, in some cases, run down the charge of batteries even if the laptop was shut.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed MacBook Air SMC Update v2.0, it requires the OS X operating system Mavericks 10.9.2 for the update to work, although more recent operating systems like OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 or newer can also process it.<\/p>\n<p>MacBook Air models made since the end of April are free of the problem.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gadget news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/104235-bmw-connected-drive-launched-in-sa.html\">BMW Connected Drive launched in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/104177-virtual-reality-gaming-popular-but-not-dominant-at-e3-2014.html\">Virtual reality gaming popular but not dominant at E3 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/104035-no-surface-pro-3-plans-for-south-africa-yet.html\">No Surface Pro 3 plans for South Africa yet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of MacBook Air machines circa 2013 &#8211; 2014 can now download an update from Apple to fix a battery problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":81009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,2274,7979],"class_list":["post-104425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-macbook-air","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}