For all but the newest laptops if there's a good deal on a current generation Sandforce drive then I think that'd be sufficient, the new ones need SATA III to take advantage of the performance.
How much the current generation of drives' prices go down when the new ones come out is the question, but I'm not convinced they'll go a huge amount lower since it seems that they're wanting to keep the same level of pricing on the next gen drives rather than going with a price drop like the last time there was a die shrink for flash. So they don't want to devalue their products too much.
But for a desktop or high end laptop with SATA III in it I'd wait for a bit for the new generation of drives to shake out.
The biggest surprise is that Intel didn't make their own controller for their drive this time, they went with a Marvell chip! Their own firmware, but still...
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