Comments on: Apple, why? 15 inch MBP loses it’s express card slot and gains…an SD card slot?!

By: Frederic Belge

Frederic Belge — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:29:57 +0000

one year later and the new MBP 15 is still without esata capacities.. what a F$$$

By: jaromir ferianc

jaromir ferianc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:31:45 +0000

i’m happy to have that older mbp 15″ unibody with express slot. i don’t know what steve jobs is thinking about… hope that in next generation of mbp 15″ and maybe in mbp 13″ express slot will be, because most of us is use it day by day.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:15:22 +0000

Apple really started building up their pro customers starting from the powerbook G4, and now these are the very same people that they seem to be abandoning. Apple, these are the people who have probably switched companies to your exclusive platform, recommend the product family members and created a thriving creative industry around its software and portables. This is just insulting and makes a stronger case against PCs and CHOICE.

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:10:51 +0000

Hi,

I’m a photographer and looking at converting to Mac so I can get into more video stuff and edit in FCP. Certainly a cheaper option like the 15″ MCP would be ideal.

By: alex Rankin

alex Rankin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:41:56 +0000

so now I need a 17″ on plane with my 19kg of other camera gear , please keep the 15″pro, thanks phil for fighting this

By: Bal

Bal — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:03:49 +0000

The right hand giveth…the left hand taketh away.

By: pbloom

pbloom — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:45:24 +0000

I agree…to a point…there is little way to expand, but there is a way to reduce. I know a HUGE amount of people, wedding vidographers, news camera-edits, people who travel who want a fully functioning 15″ Macbook Pro. Why take away, what has essentially been the perfect size computer for them ever since the titanium powerbook came out (which I still have!)…I personally use the 17″ as I edit a lot on the road but I am in a minority. The majority of guys I know who shoot tapeless or are pro photographers use a 15″. Sky News has about 50 15″ Macbook Pros. They shoot P2, they use the dual-adapator. When those computers need replacing…which is ongoing, there are going to be forced into much larger computers.

By: Dan McClintock

Dan McClintock — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:15:21 +0000

As a video professional I know it sucks having all of these ports and slots change on us (and don’t even talk to me about the lack of viewing Blu-ray on Macs!)

However, Apple is now in business of pleasing the average consumer now, and not professionals, in order to expand their market share. It pretty much has the pro market sewn up and there’s no way they can expand that market. I think the way Apple sees it, the true video professionals will be buying the tricked out Mac Pro (It IS sweet, by the way) and the 17-inch MacBook Pro allowing the business to take the cost off their taxes.

Just my two cents.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:04:12 +0000

I can live without the express slot, if and only if, they gave me an Esata port or two. I mean i almost wish they hadn’t even bothered to add the SD port.

Compact Flash would have at least been a more pro solution.

Arghh. I’d be buying the 15″ if it had either the Express slot/and or Esata.

By: pbloom

pbloom — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:44:55 +0000

usb adaptor, fine, just slow. In the field backup like you mention great. BUT that’s not a solution to the express port issue at all. Just a way around the SxS ingest issue. I want one of those, I also want the express port back!