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Apple hikes MacBook SATA speed

 
3gig is the magic number Remember the MacBook SATA degrade , meaning affected MacBooks could only operate SATA at 1.5Gbit/s, potentially slowing down SSD MacBook Pros? It's been fixed in a somewhat grudging manner by Apple.… (link)

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