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Originally Posted by AAnthony
Glad I read this thread, I bought a 13" Pro Retina last month I was kind of pissed at myself for not upgrading. It was $300 more to upgrade from a 2.4 to a 2.6 ghz processor and from a 256 gb to a 512 gb hard drive. I was already $1,700 deep so I said fuck it.
I bought an external hard drive today, went with the LaCie porsche design. You can get it at the apple store for $100. From my research it's one of the best for the price. Unless of course you go to a thunder bolt, which are $200+ for 1 tb. https://www.lacie.com/ca/products/product.htm?id=10588.
Is anybody running an SD card in their SD slot? I was thinking about getting the 128mb but they're pricey! A kingston card is about $120 + the $30 for the nifty adapter, I should have just spent the extra $300 to get double that memory in solid state form! 
This design has been knocked off by a few companies, but Nifty seems to be the only flush, quality looking adaptor. The others all seem to have large gaps. They even sell it at the apple stores in Europe.
Nifty MD3-RP-R13SR4G MiniDrive microSD Card Adapter... in stock at OWC |
I have the PNY one to store shared docs between home and work MBP. Speed is very decent (gets near to 100MB/s) and fairly reliable given all the usage I do with it. The only thing is that for newer rMBPs, the length of SD slot is a bit shorter, so the card actually extends a bit out (about 1cm). Which is still ok for me.
Transcend is coming out with a new one that has the right length for rMBP and newer MBAs. But I need the backward compatibility of older MBP, so that's a no for me.
As for the nifty, it's good if you rarely take it out. But I need to access the card once every 2 days, so the "hide-completely" is actually a problem for me.