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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
This doesn't really affect users with a HDD right? I'm hearing from people that the difference can only be felt if a SSD was used.
 
fuzzielitlpanda said:
wow is this the newest version mbp? if so, that is a shocker. sounds like apple is doing what they can to force people into buying the ssd from them
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This is the top of line stock new 15". Tried it with both the 9400 and 9600 chips active. Still shows the same.

I don't have any tools installed to test the SSD speed right now. I can test tonight. Xbench is giving me the same numbers as the previous generation UMP 15". So until I can run some better software I don't know if the speed is really limited or if maybe system profiler is reporting it wrong.
 
I have the upper end new MBP. (2.66 ghz/4 gigs ram)

It says im running at 1.5 gbits...

I bought a previous generation 10 days ago and returned it for this one. But i can really realize that this one is a bit slower...

What are the chances this is a software mistake?
 
AdamLikesMusic said:
Hey now, don't forget, they're also the greenest :p
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Yeah, but only because it's trendy. ;)

It was only a few years ago that they were so environmentally unfriendly that Greenpeace singled them out... environmentalists were picketing Apple, this annoyed the hell out of Jobs who told them to "go save some whales". Apple would gladly pour mercury down children's throats if there was money in it for them.

I love their products, but I hate the fact that they suffer from hypergreed(TM). I'm all for capitalism and healthy money-making instincts but there is a point where it gets disgusting... they remind me of Gene Simmons, the greediest guy in showbiz. He'd shake down school children for lunch money if he could get away with it.
 
The thought of going backwards when the tech world races forward at a dizzying pace sort of rankles regardless on who is going to notice this speed ' -bump'.
 
Yes please post your findings. We need more folk testing and actually making some comparative studies to the older uMBP to see if the 1.5gb does affect performance.
 
jav6454 said:
Screenshot?
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Sorry, posting from a PC at work. My MBP is not connected (not allowed). I can post a screenshot tonight. I have an Intel X25M installed so when I can load some software at home I'll be able to immediately tell if the bus really is speed limited.
 
I have a new 13" MBP with the supposed 1.5 Gbs SATA connection. I think everyone needs to quit freaking out until some people do further testing with SSDs to see how they benchmark against other machines. Someone has already stated that they are going to install an Intel drive later today. We have previous test data for that drive from other machines, and will be able to tell very quickly if there is a hardware issue. I've seen the System Profiler give the wrong information on more than one occasion over the years. :cool:
 
brand new MBP 13" 2.53 500GB. Also showing 1.5Gb. I'm not freaking out. The chipset says its the same. Perhaps a software upgrade will "fix" it.

That said, mabye it shouldn't be fixed. Perhaps there are power savings by running the chip at 1.5Gb. If the drive can't saturate the 1.5, why use the power to show 3.0Gb? I'm just speculating, so spare the flames peeps.
 
duffyanneal said:
I have a new 13" MBP with the supposed 1.5 Gbs SATA connection. I think everyone needs to quit freaking out until some people do further testing with SSDs to see how they benchmark against other machines. Someone has already stated that they are going to install an Intel drive later today. We have previous test data for that drive from other machines, and will be able to tell very quickly if there is a hardware issue. I've seen the System Profiler give the wrong information on more than one occasion over the years. :cool:
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benchmark has already been posted from a user with this limitation, which shows that the drives performance is restricted by a good 30-50%

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/718462/

those vertex drives have advertised 230MB(read), 135(write)
 
I just checked my new 13" 2.53GHz MBP (stock config), and it's running at 1.5 Gbps as well. This is kind of annoying (although not immediately important for me, since I don't plan to get an SSD at the moment).

This seems like the kind of thing that's likely a software issue. Has anyone loaded Windows (or Linux) on one of these systems and checked what speed it reports? If another OS can run the SATA interface at 3 Gbps, then it must be an issue with Apple's drivers in Mac OS X, but if they're all limited to 1.5 Gbps then it might really be a hardware issue (although it also might be firmware that could be fixed).
 
xxnoelziexx said:
Just been on the phone to the apple store regarding the SATA interfaces on the macbook pro 13" they confirmed it should be 3.0 and note 1.5. They have checked there models in store on display and out of 5 systems two reported 1.5 and the rest 3.0. They couldn't explain what the difference was but they did say 1.5 was the cheaper option which would make sense. Need to get onto to Apple support regarding this as my macbook is in the air on route.

I went for the 13-inch: 2.53GHz
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When you have the chance, can you physically go to the Apple store to check the machines there? So far we haven't had one user with a 2.53 GHZ machine report a 3 Gbit/s connection.
 
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