*ugh* my 17" MBP 2008 only has 1.5 Gigabit SATA only too :-(

[sparkie7]

What are the specs of your mac pro? If Apple has made a MBP that could beat the current line of MPs let me know - I would love to ditch my MP and get this new MBP!

i'm referring specifically to drive speed/through-put only. I've got one of the MP 2008 2.8 8-core machines. It has 3.0 SATA

 

[sparkie7]

At least I dont make uninformed purchases. Expesially ones that cost thousands of dollars. Thats what you get for buying a newly released product.

That makes you the guinea pig.

I made the purchase based on all the information available at the time and based on how busy I was work wise - I made the right decision. Although the "Apple SSD" (most likely a Samsung) is not the fastest, I'm still happy I went the SSD route. The other benefits of SSD are still worth it to me.

I don't have a problem with being a guinea pig. Without guinea pigs, technology would not advance.

My 2 squeals worth

 

[sparkie7]

lol even my mac mini has 3gb sata, and it was a lot cheaper than a 17" mbp thats for sure

lol [ shaking head ] yours must be an early 2009 mac mini

 

[MacDawg]

You're kidding, right?

Cancer doesn't influence someone's life until they find out about it, just like the difference SATA I/ SATA II hard drives! Except one situation is slightly more serious... you make the decision which one is more serious.

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[rdowns]

Bravo, good sir.

 

[Unprocessed1]

Woof, Woof - Dawg

PS, I really can't believe you've copied an pasted those paw prints on every single post. Wouldn't it be easier to just put it in your sig?

 

[sushi]

PS, I really can't believe you've copied an pasted those paw prints on every single post. Wouldn't it be easier to just put it in your sig?

I sense that you don't understand MacDawg.

 

[Batman101]

Look on the bright side - you got a great looking machine. People who buy a MacBook Pro today have to put up with one of the ugliest designs Apple has ever shipped.

You are thinking of the first ibook being introduced in 1999, that laptop is truly the ugliest product that apple has introduced! It looks like a fisher price toy!

 

[Unprocessed1]

You are thinking of the first ibook being introduced in 1999, that laptop is truly the ugliest product that apple has introduced! It looks like a fisher price toy!

I didn't like the unibodies at first, but I've grown to like them. I'm going to get a black skin for the case to make it like a faux "blackbook"

I really hate the look of the white macbook, looks/feels cheap to me, and can't stand the screen, but it's a good value.

 

[masse]

yeah I have SATA 2 and WOOOHOOO my 5400RPM notebook hard drive screams probably a lot faster than your SSD. It takes about 2 seconds to copy over a 1 gigabyte file.


oh and macdawg hell of a football team you guys had this year. I think..oh wait, yeah we played you. thanksgiving weekend game....

what ever happened in that game? didn't catch it. Oh well.

 

[Batman101]

Look on the bright side - you got a great looking machine. People who buy a MacBook Pro today have to put up with one of the ugliest designs Apple has ever shipped.

I didn't like the unibodies at first, but I've grown to like them. I'm going to get a black skin for the case to make it like a faux "blackbook"

I really hate the look of the white macbook, looks/feels cheap to me, and can't stand the screen, but it's a good value.

Really? the only bad thing about the whitebook is the graphic card and the cover is kind of too easy to get crack. I have to put them back together by glue, kind of disgusting. That's my friend's whitebook.

 

[retinaman]

I am bumming about the 2008 mbp sataI speeds:

mac mini 2009 in x bench 1.3:
Disk Test 270.93

macbookpro4,1 17in 2.6GHz 2008 in x bench 1.3:
Disk Test 164.19

using same Crucial 256GB SSD.

 

[Sneakz]

Before October 14, 2008, all Mac notebooks used Intel motherboards with SATA 1.5 Gb/s. SATA 3 Gb/s only appeared with nVidia chipsets last year. Also it will make no difference to you with your current drive, the SSDs Apple ships with their laptops aren't speedy enough for this.

Nope. Plain wrong. Santa Rosa MacBook (Pro)s had an ICH8m southbridge which does in fact support SATAII. Penryn MacBook (Pro)s too had an ICH8m southbridge. It was Apple who never implemented it.

 

[Sehnsucht]

Look on the bright side - you got a great looking machine. People who buy a MacBook Pro today have to put up with one of the ugliest designs Apple has ever shipped.

But the "ugly" unibodies are much faster, can use more RAM, have better graphics, and SATA II. True, the old design looks better, but they're obsolete spec-wise. I care more about speed than a black bezel or lack thereof.

 

[jjahshik32]

All non-unibody MBPs have SATA I. SATA II didn't appear in Apple Laptops until the unibody MBs and MBPs.

You got your facts wrong. SATA-II hdds been around in notebooks since late 2005.

 

[Thiol]

You got your facts wrong. SATA-II hdds been around in notebooks since late 2005.

This person's facts are correct. The poster was talking about Apple laptops only. The first Apple laptops that had a SATAII connection where the Unibody models.

 

[Thiol]

Oh that's funny. I didn't realize that I was defending myself until after I posted Heh. That must mean that this thread is old if I don't really remember my own post...

 

[jjahshik32]

This person's facts are correct. The poster was talking about Apple laptops only. The first Apple laptops that had a SATAII connection where the Unibody models.

I guess I was mistaken, I thought the Santa Rosa mbp used SATA-II connections.

Either way SATA-I (1.5Gb/s) is no good this time around since it wont be able to take advantage of the SSD drives.

 

[Lounge Deluxe]

[...] Either way SATA-I (1.5Gb/s) is no good this time around since it wont be able to take advantage of the SSD drives.

But the OP needn't worry about that because the performance of his ssd won't max out SATA 1.5Gb in the first place.