New SD Slot Design : Just Hangin' Out

[papercup]

You mean the engineers couldn't find an extra 15 millimeters to have the SD card fully insert?

Here is a picture of the new SD card fully inserted in action:


Story: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/..._slot.html


Very Un-Apple design

[Lux Interior]

jeeezz...

Even the mini-9 can deep throat an SD card!

[RAMd®d]

They left a little extra so your fat-fingered chubbies could get a grip.

[vision63]

It's good that it can't. I have a Nikon D40 with a click-lock mechanism that doesn't work anymore that I'm going to dismantle. I'm sure that could be the same way.

[3d]

Not everyone has dainty woman hands.

[DaviDC.]

It sticks out like that on the Dell mini 10v as well.

[Buck]

Sure! Just remove the Shift and Function keys.......

[JoeH]

Good, it leaves something to hold onto for removal. Don't know how many times I have had to help someone remove a slightly out of spec SD card from one of those slots that leave nothing to hold onto for removal. And the card is a hair too thick or short, just enough to make it harder to remove.

[papercup]

I would be concerned about putting the laptop in a bag or case w/o removing the card, or I would be concerned about forgetting to remove it.
Not good design, you should be able to keep removal media inserted fully in a full-size portable in my perfect Apple world.

Damage awaits the forgetful user who tosses the Macbook in a case.

[JoeH]

papercup wrote:
I would be concerned about putting the laptop in a bag or case w/o removing the card, or I would be concerned about forgetting to remove it.
Not good design, you should be able to keep removal media inserted fully in a full-size portable in my perfect Apple world.

Damage awaits the forgetful user who tosses the Macbook in a case.

Well, that would be the "perfect Apple world", the ejector would work 100% of the time and it would take several different forms of flash RAM cards. But instead they gave a one format slot, took out the ExpressCard slot that could have had a fairly inexpensive multi-format card reader inserted into as needed. So Apple misses "perfect" by a different margin once again. Or at least for some users such as yourself with CF or other non-SD card formats.