[Brightcolours]

[quote name='jenbenn' timestamp='1284887710' post='2912']

Actually you are very cute, brightcolors. You claim to have all the practical experience but you are satisfied with being limited to buying the low end micro usb sticks? When I tried to print from my sandisk cruzer stick on my macbook, I discovered I coudnt even plug the printer in simultanouslyw ith the stick. I hope you agree that the sandsik cruzer is not not a weird, badly designed stick but rather a professional tool that you buy if you need speed and durability.

Sorry, I love the apple products for their build quality and looks, but price-perfomance wise I am not convinced and some of their interface decisions, like the usb ports, are actually quite bad.

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What is high end to a sandisk USB stick? You find those in the 5 euros discount basket just like other USB disks.



So the cruzer is badly designed? Ok. Then why did you buy that one? Like I said, blame the USB stick maker. And you, the buyer of that product.



Now for some facts:

Notice the spacing of the USB ports on this macbook pro:





Notice the spacing of the USB ports on this HP pavilion:





Notice the spacing of the USB ports on this Sony Vaio:





And on this one:





Notice the spacing of the USB ports on this Acer Travelmate:





As I said.... if you buy a badly designed USB key, it will block ports on any laptop. Silly to claim that to be an Apple design problem.



So do yourself a favor, and throw away badly designed USB memory keys. They are dirt cheap, not really a reason to not buy a certain laptop or computer, now is it?

Just get one of the 1000's that are well designed:















It really is not hard to find memory sticks that do not pose a problem to your notebook ports. And Memory sticks are dirt cheap after all.