New MacBook Pro Limited 1.5 Gbits/s SATA Bus: Follow-up

We just received a MacBook Pro 15" 3.06 GHz, and we performed some experiments to further investigate the issue associated to the limited 1.5 Gbits/s SATA II port:

• WE have removed the SuperDrive and installed two SSDs. Despite that both SSDs are in SATA II format, there are limited to 1.5 Gbits/s as highlighted. We have carried out some performance tests with the Falcon SSD: 130 MB/s reading and 110 MB/s writing. This is in average 100 MB/s less that what we recorded when performing the same experiment with the previous MacBook Pro Unibody Rev 1 (MBPUR1).
• In order to eliminate a potential link to a Mac OS X version, we cloned the special build (9J3050) shipped with the new MBP 15" 3.06 GHz, and installed it on the MBP Unibody Rev1: SATA port was then identified as 3 Gbits/s.

So, in summary, it seems that it is a hardware issue/choice, and we are particularly disappointed as the recently launched MBPs were really looking as an accomplished and well balanced notebook family. We really expect that Apple will quickly correct this bug with a firmware update, if this is possible or not the result of a hardware design.