>No, you don't have to do it. The firmware is a EPROM chip, IIRC. >(Isn't it like the BIOS chip in a PC?) What I haven't understood is >WHY it has to be done at all. I think the iMac is the only system >that requires it (I don't have a tower, Ti-book or ibook, so I may be >wrong); I never had to do it with any of my previous Macs. It seems >that Apple is getting more & more PC-like with patches for this, >security updates for that, etc.
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