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So I stuck my SD card in my Superdrive slot.
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Two drives of identical widths positioned 1/4" apart = a design flaw.
To those who feel so superior to never make this error, I bow to your greatness.
There will be many owners of this wonderful machine, in haste or distraction, that will unfortunately make this error. And one time will be their last, as was mine.
If the drives were at least 1 more inch apart it would make a difference.
And, with the help of an amazing tech-oriented friend, we retrieved the card, via a credit card and knife.
And you're right NiuFengLe, I do not have much 'luck with the ladies'.
I'm a woman.
You too BelowTheBelt. It must not suck being you.
it will never happen to me. i'm not lucky mine is wall mounted and i swing it towards me whenever i put in usb or sd card. i'm so afraid of scratching it with the usb it's just a habit. i can see how you could miss 1/4 is pretty tiny.
Doh!
I don't think it's necessarily a design flaw, but after a long day I was trying to insert the SD card from my new camera into the SD slot while carrying on a conversation with my wife. Yup, wrong slot... Doh! My fault completely for not paying attention, but maybe Apple could have made it a little easier to not confuse the slot. The thing is, any alternative I can think of is significantly less elegant.
I don't think it's necessarily a design flaw, but after a long day I was trying to insert the SD card from my new camera into the SD slot while carrying on a conversation with my wife. Yup, wrong slot... Doh! My fault completely for not paying attention, but maybe Apple could have made it a little easier to not confuse the slot. The thing is, any alternative I can think of is significantly less elegant.
Soooo old fashioned to presume that everyone behind a computer is a man!
It reminds me of the last century on the internet when we were fewer.
If you don't even think that someone you talk to on the web is a woman, then surely you must be the guy who doesn't have much 'luck with the ladies'.
The very first thing I said to my wife upon unboxing my 27" was "I feel bad for the Genius Bar employees. They're going to have to fish thousands of SD cards out of the SuperDrive slot."
I'm not surprised. They're very close, and virtually indistinguishable from each other if you're in front of the computer. It's a case of style winning out over function. Sure, they look great together like that, but it certainly invites user error.
I'm not surprised. They're very close, and virtually indistinguishable from each other if you're in front of the computer. It's a case of style winning out over function. Sure, they look great together like that, but it certainly invites user error.
I find it hard to believe that so many people would stick things into slots without looking first, or at least feeling. (pun intended? )
There have been a lot of comments about how people shouldn't have to be "inconvenienced" by getting up to see the slots. Well, thankfully God gave us fingers. And fingers are touch sensitive, believe it or not.
So, my advice to all you "SD-in-SuperDrive" folks, if it's too much of a hassle to get up and look at the slots beforehand, how about running a finger up the side before jamming the SD in? Chances are, the smaller and lower slot you feel will probably be the one you're looking for.
)There have been a lot of comments about how people shouldn't have to be "inconvenienced" by getting up to see the slots. Well, thankfully God gave us fingers. And fingers are touch sensitive, believe it or not.
So, my advice to all you "SD-in-SuperDrive" folks, if it's too much of a hassle to get up and look at the slots beforehand, how about running a finger up the side before jamming the SD in? Chances are, the smaller and lower slot you feel will probably be the one you're looking for.
Design adjustment
Okay I always thought I was fairly computer savvy, and I did the same thing. I was distracted by my daughter talking to me, and reached around the imac and just slid the sd card into the slot without paying attention. Yep, it wasn't the sd slot, but the cd slot. I recognized instantly what had happened, but the card slid in so quickly and easily I didn't have time to stop it from going all the way into the cd-rom. Having worked on product teams for years I feel even more foolish, but recognize why we had design teams, and lots of test users. The point of good design isn't just functionality, but helping to design out user error (okay some folks call it stupidity). The point is that to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction a company needs to come up with a design with the lowest possible incidence of user error. Perhaps Apple can come up with a simple insert that can cover the cd-rom slot. I am betting that people use the sd card slot far more often than the cd-rom slot. This could help protect a lot of customers from themselves. Thanks for the ideas on how to remove the sd card. I will try them tonight.
Okay I always thought I was fairly computer savvy, and I did the same thing. I was distracted by my daughter talking to me, and reached around the imac and just slid the sd card into the slot without paying attention. Yep, it wasn't the sd slot, but the cd slot. I recognized instantly what had happened, but the card slid in so quickly and easily I didn't have time to stop it from going all the way into the cd-rom. Having worked on product teams for years I feel even more foolish, but recognize why we had design teams, and lots of test users. The point of good design isn't just functionality, but helping to design out user error (okay some folks call it stupidity). The point is that to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction a company needs to come up with a design with the lowest possible incidence of user error. Perhaps Apple can come up with a simple insert that can cover the cd-rom slot. I am betting that people use the sd card slot far more often than the cd-rom slot. This could help protect a lot of customers from themselves. Thanks for the ideas on how to remove the sd card. I will try them tonight.
...no its not? You can actually see the keys from normal angle, and there's no real risk if you put your SD card on the 3 or 4 key. Don't talk about intelligence when you're clearly lacking it.
it happened to me
now before fully inserting my SD card I wiggle it up and down before I push it in completely.
I can understand how someone who hasn't experience it would not understand how the card got inserted in the wrong slot. I've used it correctly many times before it happened to me, and I doubt I was just lucky there was something I didn't do that one time. So if you use it as often as some of us do be careful.
now before fully inserting my SD card I wiggle it up and down before I push it in completely.
I can understand how someone who hasn't experience it would not understand how the card got inserted in the wrong slot. I've used it correctly many times before it happened to me, and I doubt I was just lucky there was something I didn't do that one time. So if you use it as often as some of us do be careful.
I do this all the time, i always manage to get it out with a paperclip, but one day its going to get stuck inside... Why did they put them so close?
Ah!
I have fixed this problem permanently!
I have an 8 GB SD card stuck in the slot and it just stays there and I don't take it out.
No 2 a.m. awkwardly jamming SD cards into the wrong slot.
OH CRAP! I STUCK IT IN THE SUPERDRIVE SLOT!
I have fixed this problem permanently!
I have an 8 GB SD card stuck in the slot and it just stays there and I don't take it out.
No 2 a.m. awkwardly jamming SD cards into the wrong slot.
OH CRAP! I STUCK IT IN THE SUPERDRIVE SLOT!
I did this before the summer months, stuck a SD card in the slot and I am like OH CRAP, luckily though after a hour work and a very very long paperclip it came out of the superdrive, no probs with the superdrive either after this.
Whenever I use my camera now I just plug it in because iPhoto will pick up all pics I have taken whither on the card or on the phones internal memory.
Whenever I use my camera now I just plug it in because iPhoto will pick up all pics I have taken whither on the card or on the phones internal memory.
Why do we get a thread like this every week? Who are these people shoving SD cards in their superdrives/??!?
ROFL.... I dunno. But I have seen enough of the stories to wonder if perhaps a minor redesign might be in order.
That or an electronic sobriety test as the iMac powers up.
Me too, I used tweezers.
I've worked with computers for 15 years, and built them for several years at uni before that.
I've never put the wrong media in a computer optical/floppy/flash drive before, and my issue was that I was in a hurry to transfer pictures from the wife and just put the card in "By Feel" as the 27" is so wide I have to physically crane my head around it to find the SD card.
User error? Yes.
Will I do it again? No.
Could part of the issue be portioned to the design of an SDCard slot a few mm from the optical drive? Abso-bloody-loutely!
Stupid design choice, which will no doubt be changed in future models.
/iMacN00b
A simple solution would be to shift the SD card opening on its axis making insertion vertically impossible because the slot would be resting on a diagonal angle. You'd need to slightly twist your wrist to insert the card and therefore you'd know if it was going into the right slot or not.
Or move the slot down further down the iMac screen.
Or move the slot down further down the iMac screen.
I should hope that if im paying $1500 for a computer, they wouldn't let the fact that you could accidentally put an sd card in the super drive go, just because it saved time or was easier
I have done it before, luckily...mine got caught by the dust strip so that i could use a paperclip to get it out...its not exactly the best place to put it, but its there and i will tolerate it...theres no need to say everything apple does is perfect.
Good luck with the SSD, but do NOT buy the MBA SuperDrive. It will not work with your iMac! For whatever mindbogglingly stupid reason, it will only work with the MBA and the Mac mini server (the one without its own optical drive). I mean sure, with other Macs you don't *definitely* need one, but who knows? It could come in handy.
Easy solution- Fold a piece of paper in half
Slide the folded edge into the upper part of the CD slot
Gently slide the paper down to the bottom of the slot
Gently pull out the paper
Your SD card should now be inside the paper! And a smile of relief on your face!
It worked for me first attempt.
Good luck silly
Slide the folded edge into the upper part of the CD slot
Gently slide the paper down to the bottom of the slot
Gently pull out the paper
Your SD card should now be inside the paper! And a smile of relief on your face!
It worked for me first attempt.
Good luck silly
Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.
After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).
I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.
Thanks
keep the toaster away from you on your wedding night. lol.
Well first off let me say I was pretty intoxicated and not thinking straight. I took out my sd card out of my camera, and while looking dead on at my screen i reached over to the side and pushed my sd card all the way though.
After realizing what I did i proceded to panic, yell, curse, and punch myself in the forhead. I called my buddy who works at an Apple retail store and told me that if I brought it in and they had to open it up I would be charged for the part and labor (around$200+).
I again proceded to cuss and punch myself till he suggested I hold the 27'' beheameth sideways and jump up and down. Once I heard it drop i knew I had a solid chance of geting it out. Since there's the dust flaps in the superdrive slot it wouldn't just come out by shaking. I literally had to hold it sideways on my knee and take a hairclip in order to get it out. That's my story.
Thanks
1) How the hell were you able to balance the 30lb computer on your knee steady enough to insert a small hair clip inside while you were drunk?
2) can we get pics of your bruised forehead from all the punching you did?