This week Apple refreshed Mac laptops with Intel's new Ivy Bridge CPUs. Support isn't native yet, however much of the functionality is now available to us via an official MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) Software Update.

• Intel Ivy Bridge Processor
• Intel Ivy Bridge Drivers For Macbook Pro

The process of manually extracting kernels and drivers isn't for everyone, so we put together a new BridgeHelper installer to do all of the heavy lifting. Simply install BridgeHelper 5.0 on on an existing 10.7.4 Lion installation to gain:

Intel Processor Graphics Developer's Guide for 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Graphics on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture Introduction This guide was created to assist developers in maximizing application performance on new Intel® graphics technologies, primarily focused on the new Intel® microarchitecture codenamed Ivy Bridge.

• Native Kernel
• Native CPU Power Management
• Speedstep and sleep working
• Will remove NullCPUPowerManagement if found
• Intel HD 4000 graphics drivers for testing
• Not functional yet- no QE/CI
• Chipset support for Intel 7 Series USB 3.0
• Patched chipset support for Intel 7 Series AHCI

The installer is now available at tonymacx86.com/downloads. Good luck and have fun!
-tonymacx86 & MacMan
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