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    SD Card Boot Up

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by imMACulate, Jul 5, 2009.

  1. imMACulate

    imMACulate Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey everyone I saw this article on either macworld or mac life about installing the OS on a SD card and running it on the new macbook pro's; is there any real benefit to doing this? Is it faster than booting from the hard drive? I was really wanting to get a SSD for my laptop but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a really large capacity one so if I could just install the OS on a SD I could save a lot of money. At least, that's my plan assuming it'd be as fast as a SSD
     
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  2. Detail

    Detail Notebook Geek

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    Seeing as how the SD card sticks out of the system, this probably isn't a very good option regardless of how fast the SD card is.
     
    Detail, Jul 5, 2009
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    AirSinner Notebook Evangelist

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    Yup you could always install an OS on an SD card and boot too it. It's up to you, I see real no benefit really.
     
    AirSinner, Jul 5, 2009
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