MacWorld posted an article about a French website getting the MacBook Pro to boot from a SD card in the SD slot. Not a huge feat, but I think it’s an indication that laptop manufacturers, both PC and Mac, will continue going down the road of being Optical-less [if that’s a world].
If you are a MacBook Pro owner and interested in this bootability, please visit the following link: here.
The MacWorld article also mentioned a new SD format of SDXC which is based off the new Windows exFAT format for extended FAT and FAT32 sizes. I’ll dig up some research on this and report back.
Source: MacWorld.
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Flash Memory manufacturers will rejoice with this news. No longer will their flash memory be limited with the FAT32 file system, but rather an unlimited size of storage space.
Up to this point FAT file systems had a limitation of 4GB for a single file size and up to 32GBs for an entire volume. But no more. Microsoft has released a new exFAT file system. This means our SD, CF, USB will become supersized and no longer need to worry about dynamic file structures of NTFS. With USB memory getting bigger each year, this is great news for mobile storage.
On January 27 2009, Microsoft released their new exFAT file system. Or extended File Allocation Table [exFAT]. Here is some information off the Microsoft website:
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MacWorld posted an article about a French website getting the MacBook Pro to boot from a SD card in the SD slot. Not a huge feat, but I think it’s an indication that laptop manufacturers, both PC and Mac, will continue going down the road of being Optical-less [if that’s a world].
If you are a MacBook Pro owner and interested in this bootability, please visit the following link: here.
The MacWorld article also mentioned a new SD format of SDXC which is based off the new Windows exFAT format for extended FAT and FAT32 sizes. I’ll dig up some research on this and report back.
Source: MacWorld.
Continue Reading
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