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Blu-Ray Drive For Apple Notebooks

Posted by kdawson on from the but-not-from-Apple dept.

Sean Jackson writes "Fastmac has beaten Apple to the Blu-Ray punch and has a new slimline Blu-Ray drive that works in PowerBooks, iBooks, Mac Minis, the MacBook Pro 17", and a few other systems. It's pricey ($800), but you have to admit that burning 45 GB is pretty sweet. Here are technical specs. Fastmac says that playing Blu-Ray movies isn't currently supported since there is no software player. However, several solutions are in the works and there is always a chance OS X 10.5 will support playing movies. Perhaps this means that Apple isn't far behind and will be offering Blu-Ray with the next MacBook and MacBook Pro revisions."

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  1. Re:Meh by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I doubt you're going to burn 45Gb while on the move

    I burn forty-five gigabits all the time.

    Maybe what you meant to say is 45GB.

    Look on the bright side, you were off by less than an order of magnitude... though not by much.

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