This one really depends on how you work – I either import photos to a second internal HDD inside my iMac, or via camera connection kit to an iPad mini (from where Photo Stream magically transports them to my iMac and then my Dropbox). Apple has confirmed to The Verge's Dan Seifert that the SD card slot built into the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models supports UHS-II. Advanced 3d animation software.Using a card reader or micro SD to SD card adapter and the SD card slot on my MacBook Pro, the SD card will show as an external hard drive and youll be able to open it and get your images off.
On the other hand, this means that you can import the photos straight to the MiniDrive. Using a computer and SD card reader is my preferred way to transfer and edit my photos and videos. This isn’t a big deal if you don’t use your camera with your Mac, but if you do then you might find it a bit silly to be using a USB card reader to get your images into the MacBook. The other problem is pretty obvious: the MiniDrive takes up an SD slot. It’s far from the smooth aluminum finish of the unibody MacBook it’s meant to match. Apple has confirmed to The Verges Dan Seifert that the SD card slot built into the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models supports UHS-II, and while this could theoretically allow for read and write speeds of up to 312MB/s with USH-II SD cards, Apple has since confirmed that the reader supports up to 250MB/s of data transfer.
newer Mac laptops have an SDXC card slot that is directly connected to the PCIe bus older models are USB. Ports: (x1) HDMI with HDTV support: 4K Ultra HD resolution at 60Hz Downwards compatible with Full HD (1080p) and HD (720p) resolutions (x2) High Speed USB-A 3.0: Supplies power up to 4.5W (x1) USB-C PD, 20V at 5A: Supports Power Adapter Input up to 100W (x1) High Speed USB-C: Supplies Power up to 4. use the System Information app to check the slot. The plastic caddy is fine, but the end cap feels loosely connected and rough. last updated posted 2013-Jun-1, 8:59 pm AEST posted 2013-Jun-1, 8:59 pm AEST. The speed felt the same on the SSD and the MiniDrive, although as I said this depends solely on the speed of the card. In this case I did a Select All on the photos copied from my Dropbox Camera Uploads folder (around a gig and a half of JPGs from a Fujifilm X100S), set the Quick Look to full screen and flipped through. HD movies run fine, even in the Finder in a Quick Look window, and flipping through photos is just as responsive as doing it from the SSD.
In my testing I have been using the drive for movies and photos, both of which take up a lot of space on my Air’s 128GB drive. HD movies run fine, even in the Finder in a Quick Look window. The new MacBook Pro unsurprisingly features three USB-C / Thunderbolt ports, but it also brings back an HDMI socket and SD card slot, two features fans have long been demanding be re-added.