Thanks for the Brick

Hey Apple,

Thanks for the latest EFI 1.7 firmware upgrade. It's turned a perfectly good computer computer into a useless brick. I hope you are working on a fix for it. I've spent several hours on the phone with tech support (very helpful) and an hour with a genius (so called) who was not helpful. I assume everyone is now fully aware of the problem. If not, look here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2054387&start=0&tstart=0

I'm not the only one with this issue. Your lack of response on the boards is not very encouraging.

I bought a 500gig Hitachi drive to add to my MBP and all was well until the firmware update. How can you knowingly send something out like that knowing full well it would cause problems? Not only have I lost time but I lost several hours worth of work that I had done on the Windows side. I was dual booting and happy as could be until "the update."

Well bravo if you are working on a fix. Claiming not support 3rd party hard drives is BS. The Hitachi 500 gig drive I installed is the exact brand and model of the 250 gig drive that came with the MBP. You even have in your manual how to replace the computer's HD with another one. How was I supposed to know I had to put the "super secret custom Apple SATA crippling cross mojinator firmware" on my new drive before I installed it so your "update" would work?

I think it's time you own up to the deception and make it right. What would PC say in a commercial? He'd probably take Mac by the ankles and beat the VP who made this asinine decision with him. Way to deceive. Just fess up and fix the problem.

I want to like Macs. I like the idea of running multiple OSs on one machine but crap like this makes it hard. Fix it. Now.