Urgh WTF is with S10's ExpressCard and SD slots?

[Parasitic]

I like their no-springs-involved design on those slots, but damn it why couldn't they stick to the old design and let me keep my cards in there flush with the rest of the machine lines?

 

[corkyg]

I don't know about SD cards, but I have never had an Express card or PCMCIA card that inserted flush. They have connection ports, i.e., Firewire, USB, eSATA, dongles, etc. and in cases of connection cards, an antenna that flips up.

Maybe with no springs, you need to be able to grab hold of a part of the card to extract it?

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: corkyg
I don't know about SD cards, but I have never had an Express card or PCMCIA card that inserted flush. They have connection ports, i.e., Firewire, USB, eSATA, dongles, etc. and in cases of connection cards, an antenna that flips up.

Maybe with no springs, you need to be able to grab hold of a part of the card to extract it?

needlenose pliers would eliminate that concern, they should insert the card flush, no springs, and pack pliers with the machine.

id be annoyed, too, OP. its pretty obvious by looking at other netbooks that the memory cards can go in flush with a decent design.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: corkyg
I don't know about SD cards, but I have never had an Express card or PCMCIA card that inserted flush. They have connection ports, i.e., Firewire, USB, eSATA, dongles, etc. and in cases of connection cards, an antenna that flips up.

Maybe with no springs, you need to be able to grab hold of a part of the card to extract it?

I have one of those ExpressCard flash drives and they can sit flush with the rest of the book on my old Macbook Pro and Dell XPS M1330. And with my ExpressCard eSATA card only the neck of the port connectors stick out of the body leaving the metal casings still sitting flush inside when I used them with my old MBP and XPS.

And I think most, if not ALL, of SD card readers in laptops allow just a tiny bit of the SD card bottom edge to poke out of the body, making it convenient to leave a card in with the machine when traveling.

I'm really just nitpicking, I guess. I do like this Lenovo S10, aside from some of the weird stuff it does.