“SSDs are amazing. They’re so fast, once you’re using to using one in your day-to-day work, switching back to working from a traditional hard drive is painful,” Matthew Guay reports for AppStorm. “You’ll get so used to apps opening nearly instantly that everything will feel slow. It’s no wonder Apple’s switched its most popular laptops – the MacBook Air and the new MacBook Pro Retina Display – to SSD.”
“There’s only one problem: SSDs cost more per gigabyte than traditional hard drives, so instead of the roomy 500GB hard drives you might be used to in other computers, a MacBook with an SSD will likely only have 128-256GB of storage,” Guay reports. “With HD video downloads and retina display ready apps, it’s rather easy to fill that up.”
Guay reports, “If you’ve got a 13″ Air or a Retina Display MacBook, though, you’ve got an SD card slot. Now what if that could be used to add extra storage that felt integrated fully with your Mac? That’s exactly what the Nifty MiniDrive – a tiny microSD card adaptor that sits flush with the exterior of your MacBook – sets out to do… For now, the most you can add to your Mac with microSD is 64GB, though 128GB microSD cards should be coming out later this year (and there’s the eventual potential of up to 2TB microSD cards).”
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