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.
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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.
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.
If only they'd have put a CompactFlash slot in it instead. Properly fast UDMA cards. No professional photographers use SD cards.
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
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 Although optical media is very cheap, it is such an outdated and unreliable delivery method.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.
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.
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.
Haha, just came across this.. you predicted the future 2 years ago my friend
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:
Haha, this guy got it right man
Haha, this guy got it right man
Doubly so considering the Mac App store was, as far we knew, nonexistent at the time.