On Feb 8, 10:26*pm, Fred wrote:
bob urz wrote :

http://www.mbtmag.com/Content.aspx?id=1986

"Computers can be designed in a way that avoids the problem."

Yeah, only buy ones that have AMD processors...hee hee.

Read the full article, it says the problem is in a support chip that
has 7 SATA ports, in that five of 'em age and degrade. If your
chip goes in a laptop with two or fewer SATA devices, it's
just an issue of wiring to the ports that don't have any known
faults. The folk who were expecting their chipsets for
a production schedule care more about promptness than
about the unused features that are at fault.

There's nothing unsound about using the batches without
the fix, in something like a MacBook Air (only ONE SATA device).