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13" Mbp Only 1.5gb Sata ? - SOLVED!!!!!!!!!

Which connector is your new unibody Macbook pro

  • Sata I - 1.5Gbit

    Votes: 218 69.6%

  • Sata II - 3.0Gbit

    Votes: 95 30.4%
  • Total voters
    313
1984 said:
Voting with your wallet is the best way to send a clear message to Apple about this. I was about to order one but will no longer be doing so. In fact I don't think I will be buying any further Apple products until they address this issue and this is coming from someone who just paid the "early upgrade" price for iPhone 3G S with no complaints. It would be one thing if they were actually using a lower-cost controller chip to save money/differentiate the models but to use the same one and intentionally slow it down in software? That's truly beyond the pale as you said.
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Better yet tell them here : http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html
 
13" 2.26 w/ standard drive

It appears to be the same exact controller (NVidia MCP79 AHCI) as the person that posted above, except it has half the speed? I plan on putting a SSD in it relatively soon regardless if it's 1.5 or 3.0 though.
 

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The world's greediest, most penny-pinching inclined premium product manufacturer strikes again. Bye bye TI chipset, hello Agere. Bye bye ExpressCard, hello SD. Bye bye 3.0 gbit, hello 1.5. And let's have everyone pay extra for the Apple Remote, the display adapter and other stuff that used to be included. Let's see how far the fanboys can be pushed... will they pay extra for the rubber feet if we remove them? Or maybe we should make the Space key an accessory?
 
Anuba said:
The world's greediest, most penny-pinching inclined premium product manufacturer strikes again. Bye bye TI chipset, hello Agere. Bye bye ExpressCard, hello SD. Bye bye 3.0 gbit, hello 1.5. And let's have everyone pay extra for the Apple Remote, the display adapter and other stuff that used to be included. Let's see how far the fanboys can be pushed... will they pay extra for the rubber feet if we remove them? Or maybe we should make the Space key an accessory?
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Hey now, don't forget, they're also the greenest :p
 
ryannn said:
13" 2.26 w/ standard drive

It appears to be the same exact controller (NVidia MCP79 AHCI) as the person that posted above, except it has half the speed? I plan on putting a SSD in it relatively soon regardless if it's 1.5 or 3.0 though.
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Same here.

Stock drive, 1.5GBPS
 
Perhaps some sort of firmware update is in order? People say its the same controller right? If that is true, why gimp it? The White Macbooks have full 3gb Sata.
 
I am very shocked Apple has gone down this route. I will be checking my macbook pro when it gets delivered if it is 1.5 interface I will send it back for the cheaper model 13" uMBP 2.26. There is no point having the extra speed 2.53 with a bottleneck like that. My Intel/Ocz vertex drive will be screaming at me like my BMW M5 does in 2nd gear.

Lets see how this one plans out.
 
nuckinfutz said:
The hardware supports 3Gb so this is probably a software issue.

There should be a fix.
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If Apple Store and Apple engineers are to be believed it was done intentionally so the thing that needs fixing more than anything is Apple's behavior. I seem to recall Microsoft slowing down and breaking compatibility of various Apple applications like Quicktime in Windows back during that whole antitrust lawsuit. Now Apple is doing the same thing with their own products. They have become their own worst enemy.

If they don't address the issue maybe someone else will. :confused:
 
xxnoelziexx said:
I am very shocked Apple has gone down this route. I will be checking my macbook pro when it gets delivered if it is 1.5 interface I will send it back for the cheaper model 13" uMBP 2.26. There is no point having the extra speed 2.53 with a bottleneck like that. My Intel/Ocz vertex drive will be screaming at me like my BMW M5 does in 2nd gear.

Lets see how this one plans out.
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I don't really understand your decision to swap it for the base 13" MBP. Both models have the 1.5 Gbit/s connection and the processor speed has nothing to do with your ability to take advantage of the connection speed.
 
nuckinfutz said:
The hardware supports 3Gb so this is probably a software issue.

There should be a fix.
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Is this true? (This is beyond my technical knowledge. I just know I was planning to upgrade to a SSD drive to get the fast speed.) So, if enough people complain, Apple could release a fix? I really hope so, so I don't have to decide about returning it.
 
Are we sure that the new summer 2009 white macbooks have the 3gb speed. My early 2009 white macbook does but it also has a 1.07Ghz bus speed and the new summer ones are only 800mhz bus speed.
 
jav6454 said:
Just like the first Aluminum MacBooks. Those are capped at 4 GB of RAM when in fact the nVidia 9400M can handle without a problem 8 GB.
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What a freaking nightmare.

Buy a referb 13" Uni-macbook to get the 3Gib SATA but a 4GB RAM limit, or buy the current rev MBP for the 8GB RAM ability, but end up with a 1.5Gib bottle necked SATA... That's just super.
 
Well what about SL, surely by then, if it is a software issue, it will have been resolved.

I don't see this as a reason to not buy one of these. They're still extremely good little machines. I will be buying mine on Monday morning with the intention of upgrading to ssd in a few months once thy prices decide to come down :D
 
iAlex said:
What a freaking nightmare.

Buy a referb 13" Uni-macbook to get the 3Gib SATA but a 4GB RAM limit, or buy the current rev MBP for the 8GB RAM ability, but end up with a 1.5Gib bottle necked SATA... That's just super.
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supposedly snow leo will fix the 4gig ram limit. speculations at best. but hey...
 
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