13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface

Macrumors is reporting that Apple seems to have quietly downgraded the SATA Interface from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit speeds in some of the new MacBook Pros introduced last week. Readers are reporting that both the new 13” and 15” MacBook Pro models are affected while the 13” MacBook (white), 17” MacBook Pro and 13” MacBook Air retain the 3.0Gbit SATA interface. SATA is the interface between a computer and its hard drives.

What is the deal Apple?  We should be going forward, not backwards.  As someone who was planning on upgrading soon, and switching to SSD, this is a definite game changer.