SD Slots on the new Mac Book Pro not restricted to photos

As it usually happens when Apple makes a drastic decision regarding the removal or replacement of a specific piece of hardware on their new computer models, there were many people that didn’t quite understand the replacement of the slot ExpressCard with an SD slot on the latest MacBook Pro 13″ and 15″ models.

Other people might have taken it a little suspiciously. With a document published on their website, Apple has decided to explain things, and mentioned one of the reasons why the replacement was made in the first place.

The SD has become one of the most common storage standards on the digital photocameras, but not only there. Many other multimedia devices, such as cellphone, smartphones and the latest videogaming consoles use this standard to store data, and more and more different models with different storage capacities are being launched on the market.

On the document, Apple answers to many questions on this matter (also redirecting users to the official site for the association that promotes the SD cards), and explains that it’s possible to use cards with storage capacity superior to 32Gb and that it’s possible to format them in HFS+ to use as a boot disc for the Mac OS X. That definitely opens more possibilities there, besides common storage and usage with digital photocameras.