Airdrop not working on MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2009

i recently updated the Yosemite OS on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009), but i could use the Airdrop anymore even from computer to computer and computer to iPhone. May i know is there a reason and how shall i rectify this problem ? I had try to redownload the Yosemite OS but it appear the same issue after the troubleshoot.

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Only Apple could hamstring and tie Mac OS to Windows. There isn't any other than whether you can download the drivers into Windows (you can) but Apple puts a block on the installer setup even if your mac does not support it.
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You need Mountain Lion to use Boot Camp 5.x which supports Windows 7 & 8 and 64-bit.
I would upgrade to Lion if you can realizing that Rosetta and PowerPC are no longer supported though.
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https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1461
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdfcreate a Windows support software (drivers) CD or USB storage media
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4407
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Hi,
Great work on Yosemite, great new design as well.
Several problems since the Yosemite upgrade though :
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SMC Version (system): 1.48f2

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The temperature that SMCFanControl reports itself is the CPU A temperature diode one from what I can see. As a test I ran SMCFanControl alongside Marcel Bresink's excellent shareware program "Hardware Monitor" , which provides much more detailed information about temperatures , speeds, power demand, etc etc, than SMC is able to do, to test this and the CPU A temp diode was certainly the closest to the Hardware Monitor readings. On the video pages of the Swedish newspaper site it was generally about 10ºC hotter than the CPU core temperatures, which were generally in the 60'sC, while the CPU A diode was in the 70'sC.
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