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Minstadave said:
Taking out the SD card reader was a **** move to be honest. Professionals and amateurs need that as camera tech is slow to move on and high end cameras last years. They can’t claim not enough space. It’s a tiny bit of kit. Widespread wireless transfer is years away from mainstream.
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My thoughts on the removal of the sdcard slot are that too many people were using it as a second hard drive. Apple want people to upgrade laptops when they need more space and people were just adding an sdcard instead.

So it had to go.
 
Hades said:
My thoughts on the removal of the sdcard slot are that too many people were using it as a second hard drive. Apple want people to upgrade laptops when they need more space and people were just adding an sdcard instead.

So it had to go.
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Who uses SD cards?!
 
Hades said:
My thoughts on the removal of the sdcard slot are that too many people were using it as a second hard drive. Apple want people to upgrade laptops when they need more space and people were just adding an sdcard instead.

So it had to go.
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Or just that a lot of people didn't use it. I backed the Nifty Drive Kickstarter to have an SD card in there. Never even unboxed it in the end, had a 2012 MBPr for 5 years and used the SD card reader only a handful times. I have nothing that uses full sized SD, I'm glad they got rid of it.
 
mrochester said:
Who uses SD cards?!
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Don't know many people crazy enough for that... why pay more money for slower storage?

GeX said:
Or just that a lot of people didn't use it. I backed the Nifty Drive Kickstarter to have an SD card in there. Never even unboxed it in the end, had a 2012 MBPr for 5 years and used the SD card reader only a handful times. I have nothing that uses full sized SD, I'm glad they got rid of it.
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Why glad? It made no difference to you one way or the other... only annoyed the people who used it. Now I have to remember another damn adaptor.
 
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mrochester said:
Oh right so a niche? Doesn't seem worth Apple's while making a laptop for a niche.
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Adding an SD card slot (well not removing it in this case) is not exactly making a laptop is it?

Especially when it’s a premium laptop targeted at content creators. If it was a laptop purely for hipsters they wouldn’t be offering high end hardware. In fact photography is the first thing the MacBook Pro website mentions as a use case.

 
Minstadave said:
Adding an SD card slot (well not removing it in this case) is not exactly making a laptop is it?

Especially when it’s a premium laptop targeted at content creators. If it was a laptop purely for hipsters they wouldn’t be offering high end hardware. In fact photography is the first thing the MacBook Pro website mentions as a use case.

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Surely your camera comes with a cable to connect to your laptop?
 
crinkleshoes said:
Ummm... no... for content creators, you need to be able to review content on the move to make sure you got the content you were after, otherwise possible re-shoot.
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The original person I replied to said 'people with cameras'. Most people use their smartphones as a camera these days. If you need to use your laptop for content creation work on the go, I suggest you buy a laptop more suitable for your needs if you need an SD card slot for that purpose.
 
mrochester said:
The original person I replied to said 'people with cameras'. Most people use their smartphones as a camera these days. If you need to use your laptop for content creation work on the go, I suggest you buy a laptop more suitable for your needs if you need an SD card slot for that purpose.
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Minstadave said:
Adding an SD card slot (well not removing it in this case) is not exactly making a laptop is it?

Especially when it’s a premium laptop targeted at content creators. If it was a laptop purely for hipsters they wouldn’t be offering high end hardware. In fact photography is the first thing the MacBook Pro website mentions as a use case.

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We seem to have come round in a loop in the conversation.

Unfortunately there isn’t a better option for performance / battery... they market it for content creation and then work against content creators... it’s a bit odd.

They need to remove the “pro” from this model name and release a real pro laptop...

Steve Jobs would have fired Tim Cook by now
 
crinkleshoes said:
We seem to have come round in a loop in the conversation.

Unfortunately there isn’t a better option for performance / battery... they market it for content creation and then work against content creators... it’s a bit odd.

They need to remove the “pro” from this model name and release a real pro laptop...
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I presume most content creators just find a solution, perhaps with a USBC to camera cable?
 
mrochester said:
The original person I replied to said 'people with cameras'. Most people use their smartphones as a camera these days. If you need to use your laptop for content creation work on the go, I suggest you buy a laptop more suitable for your needs if you need an SD card slot for that purpose.
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So we’re now in agreement? Apples high end content creation focussed laptop has been made unsuitable for many content creators by the removal of the SD card a lot.
 
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