A lot of you have been following the news that Apple has downgraded the SATA interface over at Macrumors or on Apple's forums. While this is alarming for prospective and new MacBook Pro purchasers, let's keep some things in mind before we get official word from Apple.
The new White MacBook still uses 3.0Gbs SATA 2. If the move were for cost cutting concerns, the White MacBook would have been the first to have been dropped tp 1.5Gbs
The NVIDIA 9400M mobile chipset that is included in both old and new MacBook Pros has a built-in SATA 2 interface. Apple would have had downgrade the interface artificially.
The DVD drive is SATA and operates at 1.5Gbs.
So what gives? It seems that drives, no matter what speed they are are registering as SATA 1 drives. Even qu
