Comments on: What’s the Buzz About the SD Card Slot?

By: Shiroto

Shiroto — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:14:51 +0000

Hopefully, someone will come up with an sd card adapter for e-sata connections.

By: Angela Hill

Angela Hill — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:26:43 +0000

Thanks for clarifying what the heck an SD card slot is! I spent 15 minutes on the Apple site trying to find an answer and could not find it. Then, I called their 800# only to be told the “business” store was closed. Why bother putting an 800# on your site if you’re not going to answer the phone?

Question: If you were going to be working on your latop in the US and Overseas, needing internet access and portability…which MacBook would you recommend and what is the best way to make sure you can access the internet from other countries such as China and Italy?

(Note: I do graphic design but I don’t need an incredibly robust laptop as most of the time I’m on email communicating and art directing as opposed to heavy hands-on usage of the Adobe Creative Suite.) Thanks in advance!

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:45:36 +0000

I have the new 13 mbp. The sd slot is really a nice feature. Although I have a usb sd adapter, it always gets lost or forgotten somewhere. The other day I was out with a friend taking pictures, popped the sd card in the mpb, edited with photoshop cs4 saved, went to wallgreens and printed! Oh, and another good thing, I don’t forget about having my camera plugged in-dead battery- now I just swap in the sd.
As far as people being annoyed about lack of express, etc. I think Apple now has a more mainstream customer base. Before the people buying these were must likely graphic and design pros. Also most pros have a dedicated workstation, so the notebook is more for doing work on the fly.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:17:15 +0000

To each their own Ron! You say it’s a mistake, Chris doesn’t necessarily agree. Doesn’t make the content “pure bigoted trash” though.

Thanks for being a reader!

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:56:27 +0000

This type of article is so common among fanatic mac owners/pc bigots. I love my mbp but I also use my Thinkpad (only whn I must). The writer, in his ignorance behaves as if having an as slot is groundbreaking technology when the fact is many PCs notebooks have had this for years – along with an express slot. Same thing with the “boot from any media” capability. I can’t remember any pc notebook I’ve owned over the last 10 years that DIDN’T have that capability! This article is just another example of how useless the Internet is for newbies because so much of the content is pure bigotted trash. Apple made a huge mistake by leaving the express card slot off. The as card slot is welcome and useful but certainly not a new idea.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:23:33 +0000

Hey TJ,
I’ve got a 1-month-old MacBook Pro I’d be willing to sell. 320 GB HD, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR3, and one unused EXPRESS CARD SLOT.

By: MarceloR

MarceloR — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:29:34 +0000

Hey, I’ve seen this before almost verbatim … hard to miss “seeability.”

At any rate, I rather have the ExpressCard as well. The SD booting thing is just a red herring. What a blunder, a too short SD slot in lieu of an ExpressCard with an optional ExpressCard-to-SD adapter!

By: TJ Draper

TJ Draper — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:03:06 +0000

Apple should have at least given us a configuration option to still keep the express card slot on the 15″ MacBook Pro! This is a giant step backwards for me as a professional who very much prefers the 15″ over the unwieldy 17″ MacBook Pro. As a media professional, I need the express card slot for some adapters I have, as well as an eSATA card for my eSATA ONLY drives. When I get ready to upgrade from my previous generation MacBook Pro very soon, I will be forced to buy the 17″ laptop, which in all other respects I DO NOT WANT! I want a 15″

I was already extremely annoyed that Apple took the matte option away from us on the 15″ and then only allowed us to have it back on the 17″. I do not need super color accuracy on my laptop, I need seeability in all conditions and the seeability of the glaring glossy display (while probably the preference of some) is horrible for me. When I need color accuracy in a monitor for color correcting or matching purposes, I use the calibrated monitor in my office in a controlled environment. Again, Apple needs to give us an OPTION!

The #1 liability of being a Mac user is this: Since our entire computing world revolves around ONE VENDOR and ONE VENDOR ONLY for our hardware, we are at the whims of Apple’s engineering decisions, even when those decisions hurt the user. It is times like this when one can understand the desire of PC users to stick with the PC.

I can see how SD card slot or glossy displays would be preferable to some, but for those of us that need the matte display and the express card slot Apple REALLY needs to give us the option! I don’t understand why we can’t have options!