Why the new MacBook Pro doesn't have an SD card slot but does have record ordersApple's Phil Schiller on why they deleted the SD card slot on the new MacBook Pro 2016.
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Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, talking to The Independent:
The new Pros have no SD card slot for a camera memory card. Why not?
Because of a couple of things. One, it's a bit of a cumbersome slot. You've got this thing sticking halfway out. Then there are very fine and fast USB card readers, and then you can use CompactFlash as well as SD. So we could never really resolve this – we picked SD because more consumer cameras have SD but you can only pick one. So, that was a bit of a trade-off. And then more and more cameras are starting to build wireless transfer into t...
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Why the new MacBook Pro doesn't have an SD card slot but does have record orders
