I wouldn't want to lose the Express card slot unless replaced with a dual CF/SD card reader operating with the same transfer speeds. Express card transfers are faaaast!
MMMmmmmmm I don't know. I kind alike having the option to get a reader through USB 3.0 or TBolt. For some CF card reader built in would be nice, for many more it would be built in SDXC, but everyone would benefit from 4 USB ports built in.
I am not a QXD fan by a long shot. I think Nikon should've just stuck with dual CF cards in the D4, or at the very least gave us CF and SD, so a shooter in the field can get his images from camera to comp with an SD slot.
I really love having the second drive (I ditched my optical drive as soon as I bought the machine), so wouldn't want to lose that.
Agreed. In Apple speak, having a second drive would add weight and space that wouldn't benefit anyone, but no one cares on a 17" mobile workstation. An SSD for boot, and a 7.2k HDD for scratch would be nice, dual SSDs even nicer if you one has the cash.
Yes, I guess that would be a solution, though from the limited reading I've done hackintoshes seem to be a pain in terms of drivers and updates. One of the best things about OSX is it Just Works.
Agreed as well. I know most of the articles I find have users hacking OSX into towers and cheap netbooks and the such. I haven't found many that show a user hacking the OS into a fully integrated Elitebook class workstation. Besides, who spends upwards of $3500 for a notebook to hack OSX onto it then loose all the support.
With me already heading deep into Android and open source solutions for my mobile computing, I may just bite the bullet and go back to Windows for a beefier laptop. Just about all of my software is cross platform or web based now.
Wasn't the 17" already discontinued?
Yup, this thread is a zombie....
True, but it beats having the wannabe forum Nazi moderators (not the actual mods) whining about how we started a new thread instead of searching.