Personally I feel that these machines are called the MacBook PRO for a reason.
Professionals use external storage via eSATA, firewire 800, wireless 3G cards, video capture cards, audio mixing cards. All of these uses require expandability, not offered with standard USB or even just one Firewire 800 port.
These professionals if like me, like to have a fairly compact setup.
I don't like wireless 3G cards hanging on for dear life on the end of a USB dongle. The odds of that coming out accidentally when out and about are fairly high, compared to a fairly recessed wireless 3G card in an ExpressCard slot.
Also ExpressCard slots are capable of much higher transfer rates, when used with video capture cards and audio mixing that it is needed by professionals rather than a SD slot.
Throw in the fact that Sandisk also makes SD cards that have built in USB jacks to plug directly into a USB slot w/o the use of a card reader at all, makes the addition of an SD slot rather useless IMO.
I think Apple should have instead opted to keep the MacBook line in place, and put the SD card slots there, keeping the MacBook Pros with the full ExpressCard slots.
Sony's just released a 15.5-inch addition to its VAIO S Series that not only adds a crucial bit of extra display acreage, but also bumps things up to a full 1080p.
The most commented posts on Engadget over the past 24 hours.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
Personally I feel that these machines are called the MacBook PRO for a reason.
Professionals use external storage via eSATA, firewire 800, wireless 3G cards, video capture cards, audio mixing cards. All of these uses require expandability, not offered with standard USB or even just one Firewire 800 port.
These professionals if like me, like to have a fairly compact setup.
I don't like wireless 3G cards hanging on for dear life on the end of a USB dongle. The odds of that coming out accidentally when out and about are fairly high, compared to a fairly recessed wireless 3G card in an ExpressCard slot.
Also ExpressCard slots are capable of much higher transfer rates, when used with video capture cards and audio mixing that it is needed by professionals rather than a SD slot.
Throw in the fact that Sandisk also makes SD cards that have built in USB jacks to plug directly into a USB slot w/o the use of a card reader at all, makes the addition of an SD slot rather useless IMO.
I think Apple should have instead opted to keep the MacBook line in place, and put the SD card slots there, keeping the MacBook Pros with the full ExpressCard slots.