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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. Meh by giorgiofr · · Score: 0, Troll

    What the heck would you use this for? I doubt you're going to burn 45Gb while on the move, and for backup purposes HDs are way cheaper. Of course you need to rotate them, but then again I wouldn't expect a consumer-grade BR-W (sp?) to last longer than a couple of years.

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  2. Re:Wow.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    1x...not very fast is it.

  3. Re:Awesome by n2art2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's Blame George Bush and cuss at him. That show's em! Yeah we're real cool, yo!

    You are so cool.

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