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Don't take it. Return your inferior mbps
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This earns you a certificate in the field of good decision making. Some people here haven't yet come close to earning this.
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My MBP isn't getting a SSD...it will probably get my MBP 17's hard drive when I replace it...which may be never.
Some people can never be happy with what they have. This forum is ridiculous!
OMG my MBP has a slight scuff out of the box. Whatever shall I do? lol
same old apple...
takes back one...
gives it after 5 months...
but is taking back something else...
I wait the matte 15 inch in that case...
they should have it ready by now...
I m sure that i will be ready at e price of 45$ and be advertised as''matte Macbook pro 15 inch...for your eyes only...''
really is marketing genius when you think about it
mac users are notorious perfectionists and idle about the alpha transparency of the menu bar, nay have mutiple threads and devote blog sites to it.
so every square millimeter of every binary digit will be inspected and pondered over, one thing is for sure an apple owner is never fully satisfied, and if he is, his wallet just got a LOT lighter.
At least this issue is actually something that could matter. Not like "OMG it says PRO!!!11". I suppose that's an improvement.
I read on this forum that the 3 Gigabit connector uses 4X as much power as the 1.5. Any truth to that? 'Cause I'll take better battery life over slightly faster HDD performance any day...
I read on this forum that the 3 Gigabit connector uses 4X as much power as the 1.5. Any truth to that? 'Cause I'll take better battery life over slightly faster HDD performance any day...
At least this issue is actually something that could matter. Not like "OMG it says PRO!!!11". I suppose that's an improvement.
I read on this forum that the 3 Gigabit connector uses 4X as much power as the 1.5. Any truth to that? 'Cause I'll take better battery life over slightly faster HDD performance any day...
Right, but when plugged into a power source, it should operate at SATAII speeds.
I agree.
Until the cost of an SSD gets down to $1/Gig or less, you won't see me buying one. Might even have to get lower, I mean I just bought a 500 Gig HDD for $95.
Heck, I don't think I would buy one at $1/Gig .... that'd be $500 for 500 Gig.
I don't need the speed ( right now ), or the bragging rights! :lol:
Unless you have some proof of this you are being irresponsible. None of here know if this can be changed or not. I would be very surprised if this was a "mistake" by Apple that they intend to change.
Ah, no. 'Cause all the 15"er's haven't got SATA II either.
Nice try though.
Nope, the only ridiculous thing around here is you matey. Something doesn't personally affect you so you couldn't care less? Is it as simple as that?
Do you adopt that attitude in other area's of your life?
Wait until ,in this instance, Apple make a highly dubious decision that does affect you, and your usage of your Mac. Maybe other folks won't give one jot either way, 'cause it don't affect them none; it still won't make it any less important an issue.
One shouldn't only give a damn if one is directly affected by something; do you get that?
Sata I is obsolete technology, pure and simple. You may not be the slightest bit interested in SSD's now, but 12-18 months from now when they're much, much cheaper, you may suddenly find yourself wanting to sling an SSD in there that will wipe the floor with any HD you've ever laid eyes on. Then, you're in for a surprise, compared to current Mac Mini and whitebook owners that is
But you know what, I'm wasting my breath. There are those that only care about what impacts on their tiny little sphere of existence, and there are others.
I agree. SATA I is obsolete technology and should not be incorporated in Apple's 2009 laptops. With that said, you should consider what you post before you post. You don't know if you will consider an SSD in future and you should not have the "it doesn't affect me so I'll just post about having obsolete technology inside a modern laptop is acceptable" attitude. The point is... Apple used old technology in a new laptop. That simple.
New 17" owners report that it has a 3.0Gb SATA interface. It appears to be 13" and 15" only.
Please post facts that you actually know, don't make stuff up just to start a rant post. The Macbook Pro 15 had 3MB L2 Cache on the 2.4Ghz processor. You had to get the higher CPU to get 6MB. So you're saying that even the previous 15" was not a REAL MBP?
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I'm sorry to be late in the game here, just read about this..
Is this an actual hardware issue, or just a misreporting error in Leopard stating that 1.5GB/s is the speed?
It's something in hardware, firmware, or software (no one really knows). But it's clearly real since I see slower sequential reads with an Intel X25M SSD than under the previous generation MBP. You need a fast SSD to see, hard drives can't go fast enough to reach the limit.
MactrackerWhat program is that? It seems a little more informative than the system profiler...