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Actually the problem I've been having is that my MBA will not wake up again after putting to sleep. It's an aggravating problem since the instant on-off is a key feature of the new MBA. Fortunately I've been able to isolate the problem to--you guessed it--Flash: when I close all instances of Flash in Safari the problem goes away. Go figure.

Perhaps this update addresses this problem as well...

the macbook air update is not applicable if you're running 10.6.6.

Thanks spinoza2. I've been having the same problem. The saving grace is that when I have to restart my MBA when I can't wake it, it doesn't take long to boot up. But it crashes all the time. Thanks for the tip, anyway. I'll try it.

Hi spinoza2/Dogbrain,

I get the same problem delays/failing to wake. However I am generally using Firefox, with App Tamer, so it should be putting firefox to sleep ASAP.

Agree with rottenberries too - the Air update is only if you are on 10.6.5, perhaps its included in 10.6.6 already...

~chris

I've had problems waking my Air. But it seems that this update is only applicable to 10.6.5, which is odd, because 10.6.6 has been out for a while. Are there a lot of people who aren't upgrading to 10.6.6. for any reason, enough that make Apple release a special update for the Air?

I am running 10.6.6 with a "MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010)." Software Update does not offer this update. Trying to install manually gives the error: "MacBook Air (Late 2010) Software Update can't be installed on this disk. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update."

Can someone confirm that this update was included in 10.6.6 already?

What really ticks me here is that if you don't want to install 10.6.6 which seems to be nothing more than a rewrite to allow App Store access, which I am not interested in right now (as I am contending with other mac issues) you can't update iDVD which I paid for separately as part of iLife. When you download the stand alone iDVD update, it will not install without 10.6.6. Come on Apple, stop dictating what I have to subscribe to just to get the updates I am entitled to with my purchase of iLife 11. (unless 10.6.6 actually messed up the iMovie to iLife transfer and 10.6.5 doesn't have the problem).

The failing to wake up from sleep problem seems to be a general one, the Apple Discussions site is full of postings describing the same issue. So far Apple seems clueless to the problem: when I first brought it into an Apple Genius he couldn't diagnose the cause (we could reproduce it), so he simply gave me--unsolicited--a new MacBook Air. Rather than do a Time Machine restore I did a new install of everything, but that didn't solve the either: the new machine also would not consistently wake up after sleep. I took it in again, and again--unsolicited--they decided the best thing to do was to give me a new machine. By then I knew that wouldn't solve anything so I told them thanks, but no thanks. I let them know I would troubleshoot on my own and to try to figure it out. That's when I did the tests with Flash and discovered that to be the problem.

Apple is a great company, but I don't know what it takes for them to acknowledge such problems and to send out tech bulletins to alert users. Their inability to respond to such issues certainly seems to cost them a lot of money.

..... just who was it that said Apple had forgotten about iDVD