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Creative Uses For The SD Card Slot

greg555 said:
Without wear levelling you may wear out a few MB of the card and then have failures.

Greg
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Well, take out the wear leveling and failures, it should be possible but I'm not sure if the SD cards, even Class 10 would be fast enough. If it is, it's remotely possible. All my SD cards are lifetime warranty anyways.
 
Maybe use it for Time Machine backup of crucial files (if possible)?

I personally only back up my Home folder (minus the Library) to save my Music, Videos, Documents & Pictures - so my Time Machine backup was initially 18GBs.

If I had a new MacBook, I might buy a 32GB SD and use it. Often times that not, I don't connect my Mac to my External HD for weeks at a time - so the SD Backup would always be there.
 
would it be possible to run windows 7 via bootcamp off a 32GB SD card? I would love to do that rather than dictate a portion of my HDD to it.
 
If only they'd have put a CompactFlash slot in it instead. Properly fast UDMA cards. No professional photographers use SD cards.
 
greg555 said:
Without wear levelling you may wear out a few MB of the card and then have failures.

Greg
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yep.

cards will wear out quick using them for that.

i use mine to put my osx restore disc onto, that way i only have to carry around a sd card to reload my os 😀

not to mention tech tool can be loaded onto it also so you can boot that on the go in an emergency,

music and picture storage.

tons of things 😀
 
Does anyone have a picture of the SD card installed in the slot? I'd like to know how far one sticks out, or if it's flush. Can you leave the card in the slot all the time without worrying that it'll get bumped or snagged?
 
Stokes said:
Does anyone have a picture of the SD card installed in the slot? I'd like to know how far one sticks out, or if it's flush. Can you leave the card in the slot all the time without worrying that it'll get bumped or snagged?
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Half of the card will stick out. I used to think your way but give up for now... 🙁
 
zw-gator said:
My guess is that apple will start shipping OS X 10.7 or .8 via SD card, but it's not really a make or break type of thing.
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That would be great...

I hope that apple will do away with optical drives soon, and release software via dl or usb/sd cards in the near future. Although optical media is very cheap, it is such an outdated and unreliable delivery method. I've had two Apple notebook Superdrives crap out within a year of use, and I am not alone. The lack of reliabilty is well known in the Apple community.

My hope is that Apple is considering more advanced delivery methods for future notebook revisions. I think the result may represent a better user experience for us, and potentially less cost for Apple, warranty repairs, replacements, cost of media...etc.
 
SolRayz said:
That would be great...

I hope that apple will do away with optical drives soon, and release software via dl or usb/sd cards in the near future. Although optical media is very cheap, it is such an outdated and unreliable delivery method. I've had two Apple notebook Superdrives crap out within a year of use, and I am not alone. The lack of reliabilty is well known in the Apple community.

My hope is that Apple is considering more advanced delivery methods for future notebook revisions. I think the result may represent a better user experience for us, and potentially less cost for Apple, warranty repairs, replacements, cost of media...etc.
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Gotta agree. Removing the optical drives will provide a lot of space for other stuff in the laptops (like dual HDDs) or potentially make them even thinner than they are.
 
Shaduu said:
Get a 16GB SDHC card, install OS X and your must-have apps et voila! emergency backup system.
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FieryFurnace said:
I use SD cards to get files from one computer to the other - basically like a USB drive, just smaller.
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All of which can easily be done with an ExpressCard slot, and you can have an SSD ExpressCard for a small backup system that can remain in and flush. Multimedia card readers are flush, too. I mainly use three ExpressCards: 16GB SSD, SD card reader, eSATA. Obviously, no matter how you look at it, ExpressCard is more versatile. It really sucks that Apple did away with it in the 15". Then again, it's why Apple gave me a 17", hah.
 
I don't normally resurrect threads but thought this one was some fun irony. Was doing a search about my SD card and this came up. Guess Apple is good at seeing future trends.
 
derekamoss said:
I don't normally resurrect threads but thought this one was some fun irony. Was doing a search about my SD card and this came up. Guess Apple is good at seeing future trends.
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Man, I can't believe two years ago, we were thinking about getting rid of ODDs and install Mac OS X with other method. I just found this post:


reallynotnick said:
If anything it would be a USB flash drive, but optical media is so cheap why bother? Maybe they could offer it online some how, but an SD is pretty unlikely.
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Haha, this guy got it right man 🙂
 
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