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Slimline Blu-Ray drive ships for Mac notebooks

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 21 Apr 2007 8:05 User comments (2)

Slimline Blu-Ray drive ships for Mac notebooks

Fastmac, an optical drive maker for Macs, announced today that they had begun shipping the first and only Blu-Ray optical drive upgrade "for Apple's PowerBook, iBook, and MacBook Pro notebook systems".
The new slimline, slot loading drive is compatible with standard DVD and CD media and will also provide up to 50GB of storage per disc.

The new drive is priced at $800 and requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.

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2 user comments

121.4.2007 22:04

ooooooo high tech! Now I can convert my MacBookPro into a portable BRD player. Oh wait, that's how much I paid for my Sony VAIO, nevermind.
Joking aside, do they have portable BRD players yet?

222.4.2007 06:04

It will be sometime for the avrage computer user to accquire one of these :)

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