The MacBook Pro might be an awesome computer, and its Touch Bar certainly looks like a promising (and actually rather courageous) alteration. For many of us, the act of doing this has turned into muscle memory. But the fact is that even with so many wireless 'options' on offer, we all rely on the tried-and-true method of pulling the SD card out of camera and popping it into our laptop. If we could transfer photos off cameras wirelessly, we’d already be doing it. Has anyone at Apple tried using the wireless transfer apps that camera makers now offer? They’re utterly and universally atrocious.

It’s just that the SD card is nowhere near being deprecated. Honestly, though, nobody else has four Thunderbolt 3 ports on a laptop yet, all of them allowing you to charge the laptop and obviating the MagSafe power plug. Isn’t that fun? Apple is showing loyalty to the 3.5mm headphone connector that it considered so retrograde for the iPhone. I understand Apple’s reasoning and broader aim: the Cupertino company isn’t just dispatching the SD card slot it’s also doing away with the older Thunderbolt port, HDMI, the classic USB jacks, and basically everything that isn’t USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 or the headphone jack. And now the MacBook Pro doesn’t have an SD card slot anymore. Many of the MacBook Pro’s most devoted fans are indeed photographers. In the olden days when Windows PCs and generic monitor makers didn’t care about color fidelity, Apple was the pioneer that said that colors matter. And now Apple has decided to ditch it.Īpple has always been a photographer’s close ally. the only thing all of these photo companies agree on is that SD is the storage medium of choice. Fujifilm, Sony, Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic.

SD cards are those awesome things that practically every dedicated camera in the world nowadays stores photos on. What you see before you, friends, is Apple’s brand new MacBook Pro, in the silver $1,799 configuration and space gray $1,499 variant without the cool new Touch Bar.

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