The addition of a built-in SD card reader to the 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros may have dubious utility for many users, but Apple has seen fit to include at least one feature with lots of potential use.

It seems that the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros does count as a bootable device; all you have to do is install OS X onto a card, set it as the default boot device, and you’re good to go. Why ...

When Apple announced the swapping of the ExpressCard slot on the 15-inch MacBook Pro for an SD (Secure Digital) memory card slot, the few users of ExpressCard-compatible peripherals – at least those ...

Apple's new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros introduced this week feature an SD (Secure Digital) card slot primarily for reading and writing media files to SD cards, but this tiny slot can also serve as a ...

While Apple was pushing the addition of an SD card slot as useful for digital camera owners, hackers and enhusiasts have another reason to celebrate. Apple itself has now clarified that the new SD ...

It probably isn’t a big surprise to many, but you can officially boot the new MacBook Pros from an SD card according to this KnowledgeBase Article (via Ars). On older machines, you could boot from a ...

This is so cool that I'm just sitting here giggling about it. Many newer computers, with newer BIOS, are able to boot from a flash memory card. My HP 2133 systems can do that. So I just used the ...

SD cards have been a ubiquitous part of our tech lives for going on 25 years now, having replaced older formats like MultiMediaCard. While our phones have mostly jumped off the microSD train in favor ...

For example, I've heard of someone using the SD slot on a Windows notebook to make immediate backups of any work done in-flight. The idea is that the card can live in the slot almost permanently ...