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The top of the line 17" still has the ExpressCard slot. Apparently, SD's the new floppy after all, instead of USB thumb drives.
by DLWormwood 17y ago
The top of the line 17" still has the ExpressCard slot. Apparently, SD's the new floppy after all, instead of USB thumb drives.
- axod 17y agoI wonder how long we'll still have CD/DVD drives. I've used mine maybe twice :/ Would much rather just have a bigger battery there TBH.
- ori_b 17y agoMy current laptop (Fujitsu T2010 tablet) doesn't have one. The only time I missed it was for installing Linux - I had to borrow a USB drive from a friend. Next time I'll probably just figure out how to put the installer on a USB key.
- pj 17y agoYeah, I used my cdrom drive on my macbook pro about 3 times. Now I need it and it's broken. But I have .ISO's and I can just mount those as a drive, so really the drives are obsolete already. I'd rather see that space dedicated to horsepower.
- DLWormwood 17y agoThen gripe to Steve Jobs (or whomever), he was the one who convinced Apple engineers to remove the dual hotswap bays that used to be standard on the PowerBook line around the time of the marketing transition to "MacBook." A user used to be able to forgo a optical drive to have a second battery installed...
- joeyo 17y agoI've always gotten the flip up SD cards for this reason-- it works works every place an SD card works, then you flip it and it works like a USB stick. Of course the proliferation of mini and micro SD cards has lessened the effectiveness of this plan...
- DLWormwood 17y ago> Of course the proliferation of mini and micro SD cards has lessened the effectiveness of this plan... Not really, it might be hastening it. You can get housings for mini and micro cards that work with full size SD slots, and USB housings that convert the smaller cards into a plug-in drive. I wouldn't be surprised if there's one out there that does both.