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What have I use SDXC card for Macbook Pro Late 2011?

I would like to inform about sdxc card for my Macbook Pro Late 2011. Is it possible to use same card like for Macbook Retina? There is a slot on the right but the slot on my macbook pro late 2011 is on the left. Is it ok and the same?

Posted on Jun 22, 2023 3:09 PM

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Jun 22, 2023 10:35 PM in response to creativesuzi33

It appears that the SDXC card slot was dropped from most MacBook Pro models made after 2015, If you need a built-in card slot in a new Macbook Pro , you must buy the more expensive 14- or 16-inch models.


Otherwise you need an external USB card reader.


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MacTracker in the Mac App Store

Apple - Support - Technical Specifications


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Jun 22, 2023 7:56 PM in response to creativesuzi33

The first Retina MacBook Pro came out in 2012. It looks like all of the Retina MacBook Pros with built-in SD-family card readers have SDXC card readers. As does your Late 2011 MacBook Pro. (Some earlier MacBook Pros might not support SDXC cards.)


So they all can read the same capacities (SD, SDHC, SDXC) of cards. As long as you put the card into the slot the right way, whether the card reader is on the right side or the left side makes absolutely no difference.


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Jun 23, 2023 4:23 AM in response to Allan Jones

Allan Jones wrote:

It appears that the SDXC card slot was dropped from most MacBook Pro models made after 2015, If you need a built-in card slot in a new Macbook Pro , you must buy the more expensive 14- or 16-inch models.

Otherwise you need an external USB card reader.

That's true, but the OP said that he had a slot "on the right [hand side]" of his Retina MacBook. The question was whether you could put the same cards in both readers.


As far as I know, yes, although there might be some cases in which an older machine/OS would have problems with reading the contents of a particular card. Like if you formatted a card using APFS (instead of the default filesystems like FAT32 (SDHC) and exFAT (SDXC) that digital cameras expect. Or if you were trying to import Raw files, and an older system didn't have support for a particular Raw format (even though it could physically copy Raw files off the card).

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What have I use SDXC card for Macbook Pro Late 2011?

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