iPhone Jailbreak pawned by New MacBook and MacBook Pro

Files under iPhones | Written by vmphones on Nov 4th, 2008

State-of-the-art features and stylish appearances blend together to push the new MacBook Pro and MacBook laptops to a whole next level. But in this post we are not going to talk about all mundane features that people largely in the blogosphere talk about, rather we would like to highlight a likely-never-heard feature but have huge impact on a portion of Apple users.

We talk about the great battle between Apple and iPhone hackers. The latest laptop lineup apparently turn the table into Apple's advantage as Apple manages to put a complete halt on iPhone hackers and the "jailbreak community" activities. That’s right, Apple has tweaked the MacBook and MacBook Pro to thwart jailbreaking efforts using the popular Pwnage Tool solution.

It is reported that iPhone and iPhone 3G users with the new all-aluminum MacBooka and MacBook Pro laptops didn't manage to jailbreak their iPhones in DFU restore mode. As the iPhone community know, both Quickpwn and PwnageTool require the iPhone need to be detected in DFU restore mode by the computer in order to perform the jailbreak procedure. In essence, the new laptops are effectively killing the jailbreak option for many Mac users.

Solution? No real solution for the latest Apple's step-up but you can always go finding an older Apple laptop or find a Windows machine to jailbreak the iPhone.

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