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Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models With HDMI Port and SD Card Reader to Launch Later This Year
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HDMI seems needed on the Mac Mini.
It seems needed on the Mac Pro as well as it comes with 2 HDMI ports.
I guess Pros really do need HDMI.
Though not for the iMac Pro. Some users are more Pro than others?
Of course the iMac Pro has *GASP* USB-A connectors. So Pros need USB-A too. And even Ethernet. And even 10 GB Ethernet.
Even the Mac Pro has USB-A connectors. What's the world coming to when you can't get rid of legacy ports for Pro models?
Who’s spending $300 on SD cards? 😂 You can get 300mb/s cards for less than $100 all day on Amazon. I’ve been doing this professionally for 16 years, day in and day out. Ask pretty much any photographer what memory card format they are using and almost every one will say SD, it’s the industry standard for many years now and will be for some time still. It’s pretty obvious you aren’t in the industry.
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Just checked on Amazon and 512 GB is $80. That's a bit less than Apple asking $200 to go from 256 to 512 GB. I don't really use the SD card since we're at home so much. I just use the NAS for storage. But SD cards are handy for traveling - which we will do someday.
I don't have access to my Amazon account anymore, otherwise I'd find the one I got. Many people sell it, advertised to stay flush in a MBP.
Edit: See below, it's that BaseQi one. Jogged my memory.
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Nearly all of them are USB-A. Even the USB-C keyboard I just bought only comes with a C->A adapter, not a C->C cable. I'd have to go buy another cable to use it if I didn't have regular ports!
This is the other type which is just a flush sleeve. You add an SDXC card. Samsung has one at 512 GB for $125.
The one I got is only a microSD adapter, and I bought a microSD card separately. It's nice that I can put it into another reader if I have to or read other microSD cards in my laptop, but this solution might be cheaper or faster.
Edit: Oh, you just posted the one I bought.
Nobody knows. I'd say that Kuo's comments are likely to be spot on as to the three things that will be included. Outside of this, I don't think that you can say anything else. I do think it likely that they will keep at least two of the USB-C ports. I'd personally be fine if they just left one of them as everyone says that you can do everything with one port.
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Gotcha. I found it. At first I assumed you meant for the current USB-C only MacBooks there was a USB-C to micro-SD adapter that was nearly flush, like the way the flush USB-A drives are (which are not truly flush, but don't protrude a lot compared to USB-C flash drives). I see what you use converts the SD card reader instead. I have always had hit and miss luck with the SD card reader on my current MBP (late 2013 model) and on previous ones as well. I don't use it that often. But I've found I have to really jam the card in to be read. Maybe it's a dust problem--I didn't look into it as I never used it too often. But that would definitely be an option if the next MBPs have an SD card reader. I'd still like my USB-A port more, but it's something.
SD cards don't fix in my XQD and CF Express slots, and they didn't fit in my CF slots. I don't know a single professional photographer that uses SD for anything but a backup and I personally use dual CF Express or dual XQD if I need a backup. But I guess everyone with a Canon rebel and a kit lens thinks they are a pro.
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Like for like, the CF Express is $37.75 more expensive for a significantly faster and more durable card. Why on earth would you cripple a camera and your workflow by using the backup slow as your main card?
I get if you just take one or two hundred shots a day that you don't need a fast card and you're ok waiting on the buffer clearing, but then you are also just fine using wireless transfer or plugging the thing directly into the machine.
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Maybe not for topend studio photographers especially those with medium format cameras, but I bet just about every professional photographer has at least one DSLR or mirrorless camera with SD cards for when they are out and about.
My out and about cameras (non gripped bodies) have XQD/CF Express and before that has CF. You can go through the models Nikon and Canon have sold from the Canon 5D, 7D, 5DII, 5DIII, 5DIV, D800, D810, D850 and various other common cameras (The Canon 5DIII is one of the most common cameras in use), these, except for the D850 use CF cards (not even CF Express, just good old IDE based CF).
Professional photographers where all in on CF for decades and then we had a 4 year period of XQD vs CFast(SATA based CF) before the industry moved on to CF Express B for Canon and Nikon and CF Express A for Sony. I would understand a photographer arguing for adding in CF, the most common pro cameras still have CF cards and I even have a few dozen of these from my 1DX. But SD, SD was always on the Nikon XXXX series and Canon DXXX series cameras that are sold to consumers and dying out to iPhones.
I'm hearing both "I'm a pro and say SD is dead" and "I'm a pro and use SD every day" around here.
This thread has got a bit off topic with the arguments about the usefulness of SD cards, but whatever!
My two Nikon professional camera's both use them as well as the faster XQD cards. Also my Marantz sound recorder and several pieces of medical equipment (endoscope units and photomicrography units) all use SD cards. I would welcome this slot, even though it is not too much trouble to carry the card reader in the Pele case which accompanies me to work.
My two Nikon professional camera's both use them as well as the faster XQD cards. Also my Marantz sound recorder and several pieces of medical equipment (endoscope units and photomicrography units) all use SD cards. I would welcome this slot, even though it is not too much trouble to carry the card reader in the Pele case which accompanies me to work.
I love the Touch Bar. It does just about everything I want it to, and I use it almost constantly. Without a TB, would we have fingerprint ID?
With the TB, you have the ability to opt in for just about all of the controls that are part of the function keys. I don't understand why so many people hate it.
With the TB, you have the ability to opt in for just about all of the controls that are part of the function keys. I don't understand why so many people hate it.
The MacBook Air/M1 has fingerprint ID without the Touch Bar.
Some people like real buttons. Maybe even most.
I'm using an external keyboard with my 2015 MacBook Pro right now and it's in clamshell mode. Why couldn't Apple put in a mechanical keyboard in their laptops as that's what I would like.
Really? You dont know professional photographers with a Canon EOS R, 5D Mark IV, 1DX II or dozens of other Canon DSLRs? You dont know any professional photographers with a Sony a9 II, a7R IV or any Sony released the past 10 years? How about all the Nikon cameras with SD cards, no one? I know tons. Only the brand new cameras released the past few months have CF cards and that's only a few models that shoot 6-8K video.SD cards don't fix in my XQD and CF Express slots, and they didn't fit in my CF slots. I don't know a single professional photographer that uses SD for anything but a backup and I personally use dual CF Express or dual XQD if I need a backup. But I guess everyone with a Canon rebel and a kit lens thinks they are a pro.
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Like for like, the CF Express is $37.75 more expensive for a significantly faster and more durable card. Why on earth would you cripple a camera and your workflow by using the backup slow as your main card?
I get if you just take one or two hundred shots a day that you don't need a fast card and you're ok waiting on the buffer clearing, but then you are also just fine using wireless transfer or plugging the thing directly into the machine.
Can we please stop acting like CF Express dominates the industry because that is nowhere close to true and flat out incorrect. Go to B&H, Adorama and Amazon and look at the top 20 list of cameras sold. You will only find one, maybe two have that CF Express. 90% of cameras on the market, pro or otherwise, still use SD cards.
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I do fashion and glamour work professionally. Many high end studio photographers still shoot film believe it or not. The ones who do shoot digital certainly aren't using brand new cameras with CF Express cards, at least the vast majority are not. They are using Hasselblads. Leicas and the Fuji GFX 100, all with SD card slots. I know one guy who shoots with a Phase One IQ4 that uses CF cards, but that's a $73k setup he's using while he shoots Vogue covers and campaigns for major brands that pay near 6 figures. VERY few are doing that.
The Canon EOS R was for building up your RF glass on until the R5. The 5DIV has CF as the primary card and a SD for backup that significantly reduces the cameras performance. The 1DxII uses CFast 2.0 and CF as the backup card. The Nikon D850 has XQD as the main card that has now been firmware upgraded to accept CF Express. The Sony A9ii has just been replaced with the A1 which is dual CF Express type A to finally fix the buffering issues a lockup’s caused by them using SD cards in a pro camera.
If you want to argue for a older card format to be included it should be CF as that was the dominant format until the Nikon D5(which came in dual CF or dual XQD versions) and the Canon 1DxII which incorporated the short lived CFast 2.0(Competed against XQD) as primary and a older CF as secondary.