Apple's 13in MacBook Pro in online strip tease One item announced during Apple's keynote address at this week's Worldwide Developers Conference took most observers by surprise: the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. It didn't take long, however, for the teardown specialists at iFixIt to get their hands on one and take it apart. They found the operation to be reassuringly easy, …
The SD card sticking out is not a bad thing. It is not a netbook where you are using it as main storage. You will be popping it in to get photos off then pull it out. The SD card reader on my Dell has stopped holding the SD card properly and I need to hold it in while downloading so it does not shoot out. Even before it was fiddly to eject.
You really do. If you use the machine for collating your photos - something made slightly easier now by the addition of the SD card slot - that 160GB will fill up very quickly. Use it for games, movies, TV shows etc. and that space will disappear faster than the universe in contraction mode.
New MacBook Pro 13-inch is a great buy, and especially now since Apple dropped the prices across the board. Mine's a 15-incher though - I need the screen real estate.
Putting my amateur photographers hat on, I use a laptop for "onsite" photo editing. I use aperture. I have an external USB powered harddrive. The aperture library sits on this hdd. I can use it on my desktop and laptop. So for some the laptop is their principle/only computer. It's still more sensible to have your photo library on an external drive. Music the same. Yes, you can get a cheaper laptop. Yes you can get one with greater capacity, but if you are in the market for a Mac laptop, this is an excellent machine. This is an example of Apples excellent engineering too. Nobody makes computers as well, and if you are an environmentally concious soul, no-one makes them greener. People are prepare to pay a premium for that, even if some of the respondants that lurk here think that they are idiots. I'm sure the agument works both ways. Reminds me of some of the early anti-iPhone "I couldn't possibly live without MMS! How would my parents see my children!?" type logic.
A bit disappointed by the sticky our SD card. My Wii has a flush SD card reader that has never failed to spring the card out. My Powerbook holds a PCMCIA reader that SD cards fit into flush. I'd have probably preferred they drop the optical drive and given me eSATA.
On the subject of hard drives everything is on my 250G laptop drive, backed up to my Time Capsule.
Personally I think it's a good idea to make the sd card slot as shallow as possible in this case (when it's not supposed to sit in the machine for long periods of time - ala ssd netbook) - that means when some muppet (and there's a good number of them) tries to stick a micro sd or some other smaller format into the reader the chances of getting it out are greatly enhanced.
I couldn't tell you the number of memory cards I've had to pull out of the wrong slot with a couple of very small precision screwdrivers to avoid sending the whole laptop away for strip down/repair. The last one that happened to the motherboard had to be replaced cause the reader was soldered to the motherboard and completely busted by the time the card was removed.
It does make you wonder how some people procreate if they can't even find the right hole on a laptop.
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>That all seems preety hard to use. I mean swapping the harddisk when the old one fails is a typical >user task, just like replacing a toner cardridge.
The average computer user uses their computer and takes it to PC World or somewhere when there is a problem.
Anyone who can change a toner cartridge can surely use a screwdriver.
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