A lot of you have been following the news that Apple has downgraded the SATA interface on the new MacBook Pros over at Macrumors, Notebook Review or on Apple's forums. While this is certainly alarming for prospective and new MacBook Pro purchasers, let's keep some things in mind before we get official word from Apple. (that Computerworld guy has a call into Apple for clarification)
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 i