Agree with both points made by Jason. A cursory glance through the comments above shows a variety of hardware from big-name vendors (Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo) - these guys clearly deemed the xD format sufficiently popular in merit inclusion of the card reader in their laptops. Failure to support built-in hardware out-of-the-box (or at all, as in this case) is a major obstacle to wider adoption of GNU/Linux.
Agree with both points made by Jason. A cursory glance through the comments above shows a variety of hardware from big-name vendors (Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo) - these guys clearly deemed the xD format sufficiently popular in merit inclusion of the card reader in their laptops. Failure to support built-in hardware out-of-the-box (or at all, as in this case) is a major obstacle to wider adoption of GNU/Linux.