For those of you considering a new laptop

... then you're probably looking at getting an Intel Sandy Bridge powered device. The new platform offers great performance and much improved battery life. Great, right?

Yes, in theory - but it has a big fat FLAW in it. A design flaw in the chipset can cause your SATA performance to be severely impacted. Intel are working a fix but replacement devices are due in April at the earliest.

Anyway, this site has a lot of useful information about Sandy Bridge laptops.

In particular, there's a post from today which explains how you can get a Sandy Bridge device returned, depending on the manufacturer.

Check it out - but unfortunately you will need to wait until end of March to put in your orders! Oh well.

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