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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple finally released the latest version of its desktop operating system, "OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion," to millions of Mac users around the world Wednesday. The OS is currently available for download ...

In the wake of this week’s WWDC keynote, in which Apple announced that new MacBook Pro laptops will finally include an SD slot, the tech press is all aflutter about what they seem to think is a new ...

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 ...

Raspberry Pi’s SD card boot support was exemplary when it first arrived, and made it possible to load an operating system on it. Even after a decade, Raspberry Pi boards continue to support SD cards, ...