EFI update went well. Am I crazy or do things seem snappier

I just updated my iMac with the EFI update. Very smooth. Subjectively, the machie seems much more responsive and quick. Is this just me or have others noticed what appears to be this increase in responsiveness. For example, applications just seem to load much more quickly.
Steve

Hi Steve,
You're not crazy AFAIK . I did the EFI update yesterday and, after a slight glitch which is described in this thread,
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1153464&tstart=15
I was surprized by a 20 second bootup this morning. 20 seconds! It used to take about 25 to 30 seconds prior to the update. Hope this continues. And yes, everything does seem snappier as you report.
Rick

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Hey Shadowyani, please take a time and fill a bug report at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ . The machine is useless for me as it is now because I develop and use very GPU/CPU demanding scientific applications, after the update my realtime applications are completely useless as they drop from something like 25fps to 9 fps even on Mac OS X (no SMC reset fixed the issue). In bootcamp the situation is worse, my software runs at 4 fps and gaming turns to be impossible to play as well.
Please let Apple know about the problem, fill a bug report, even if SMC reset once in a while fixed the issue for you (this is not a common behaviour and must be fixed). We paid the price for cutting edge technology.
Apple shall not do a downgrade of the system after few weeks, remember that most of reviews and benchmarks were done BEFORE the EFI Update, so people are being fooled by Apple in this sense.

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My Mid 2011 iMac 27" i7 will no longer start after the latest EFI update.
I decided to perform some system updated on my iMac and after installing 10.7.3, I rechecked and it found the EFI update and one other update. They were both pretty small (the largest was 3.6MB), so I decided to proceed prior to getting back to business with my system.
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2. Is anyone else running into this problem?
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i got home last night and read up on a website about the EFI update for the macbook
so i went into software update, and low and behold, the update didnt appear.
i have a new penryn blackbook...its only about 3 weeks old...
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I have a MPro 2x3GHZ with 2GB ram....
I do NOT use a RAID but have 2 500gb HD's (one for OSX, one "play" for Windowze)
I do NOT have 3rd party ram or peripherals.
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