Paul, as soon as Panasonic and the likes have a BR-drive small enough to fit into the MBP enclosure, you can retrofit that into any Powerbook and MBP :-) That is how I replaced my aging super drives until I needed a real speed jump processor-wise. So no need to buy a new MBP if the feature-delta is only a BR-drive.

P.


Edit: Look here: www.mcetech.com/

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So no updates from WWDC - I rekon we're looking at the end of the year for blu ray macbook pros and macpros.

I know the models they're using are the same matshita ones that sony use as adobe have already qualified them for CS3 with macbook pros and mac pros :)

peter
 

it's true you could put one in yourself, but with blu-ray, requiring firmware and specific drivers, you really do not want to do that.

there is already some panasonic (matsushita) half height blu-ray drive for notebooks already, slot loading which dell has on their XPS notebooks. they can be bought for about US $600, but again, no apple firmware available that i know of.

paul

Keep in mind that Apple DVDStudioPro can't author any form of Blu-ray video disk yet.

Certainly you can install a Blu-ray burner in MacPros. I know of folks doing that already. There's a company that many recommend for Mac and they have drives for MacBookPro 17" but the company isn't DVInfo sponsor so I probably can't mention them.

Since I just bought my MBP....I am just looking at one of these...

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11054

Lesser known company than LaCie but well known to Mac Professionals. I know post house buying these drives for their authoring

Tray for Desktop
http://fastmac.com/slim_bluray.php

Slot for MacBookPro17"
http://store.fastmac.com/product_inf...roducts_id=338