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Old Jul 29, 2013 | 7:27 pm
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I think SATA became standard at or before 2006 (my 2006-vintage ThinkPad took an SSD just fine).

Some older (pre-2010?) Macbooks won't work with SSDs because of a different clock frequency in the system bus or some such.
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