HACKINTOSH.ORG | Macintosh discussion forums

How to tell if your Mac has Bluetooth 4.0 (BT LE)

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/how-tell-if-your-mac-has-bluetooth-40' title="How to tell if your Mac has Bluetooth 4.0 (BT LE)"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2014/06/handoff_federighi.jpg?itok=Q1mvDwns' />[/url]</p> <blockquote class="centerquote">Some features coming to iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are dependent on Bluetooth 4.0. Does your Mac have what it takes? <p>There are a lot of cool features coming to iOS 8 (http://www.imore.com/ios-8) and OS X Yosemite (http://www.imore.com/os-x-yosemite) this fall. One of the most hotly anticipated is Handoff (http://www.imore.com/handoff), which enables you to pick up where you left off in an email, a document and other work between iOS and OS X devices. Handoff is elegantly choreographed dance between devices, operating systems and protocols. It's partly dependent on Bluetooth 4.0, the most recent widespread deployment of the popular short-distance wireless communication protocol, which includes Bluetooth Low Energy (BT LE). So, how can you tell if your Mac is properly equipped to take advantage of it?</p> <!--break--> <p>Bluetooth 4.0 is included in most phones, iPod touches and iPads that will be capable of running iOS 8 when it comes out this fall. (The iPad 2 supports Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, but all other iOS 8-capable devices are equipped with Bluetooth 4.0.)</p> <p>Unfortunately, it's not quite that clear cut on the Mac side of things. The cutoff starts somewhere in 2011:</p> <ul><li>The Mac mini and MacBook Air were both updated with Bluetooth 4.0 support in 2011.</li> <li>The MacBook Pro and iMac added it a year later in 2012. </li> <li>The Mac Pro languished without it until the new black model debuted in December 2013.</li> </ul><p>You can check for yourself if you're not exactly sure which Mac model you have. It's a little convoluted, so bear with me and follow these instructions to find out.</p> <h2>To determine your Mac's Bluetooth version</h2> <ol><li>Click the <strong></strong> menu.</li> <li>Select <strong>About This Mac</strong>.</li> <li>Click on the <strong>More Info...</strong> button.</li> <li>Click on the <strong>System Report...</strong> button.</li> <li>Select <strong>Bluetooth</strong> from the sidebar on the left, underneath "Hardware."</li> <li>Scan down the list of information until you find "LMP Version."</li> </ol><p>If your Mac is equipped with Bluetooth 4.0, LMP Version will say 0x6. Anything lower than that is an older version of Bluetooth.</p> <p>Does your Mac come with Bluetooth 4.0, or are you going to need a new system to take full advantage of Yosemite and iOS 8 when they're released this fall? Post your thoughts in the comments.</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-25208"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

<a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url]
<a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url]
<a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url]

<img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/a2.img" border="0"/> (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/a2.htm)<img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/199108576824/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/3ba1d553/sc/5/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~4/YxZ0_dmDjs8" height="1" width="1"/>

Source: How to tell if your Mac has Bluetooth 4.0 (BT LE) (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/YxZ0_dmDjs8/story01.htm)