Blu-Ray burning software included on Mac Mini?

[tshrimp]

Forgive me if this seems to be a dumb question, but I just bought my 1st mac a few days ago. A low end Mac Mini. The person at BestBuy told me that 2GB on Mac was like 4GB on a Windows PC. I took her at her word. Needless to say....I now have 8GB of ram in my Mac Mini. So far I am liking it, but still learning.

I am looking at buying an external Blu-Ray burner from a local store as it is a very good deal, but it looks like the reviews on the product state that it does not have any blu-ray burning software that comes with the product, so my question is this.....

Does Mac OS X Lion come with software for burning Blu-Ray disks?

Also will the Mac support most external DVD/Blu-ray drives like Windows 7, or do I need to be more careful on what I buy?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[philipma1957]

no does not come with software. many of us run windows 7 in bootcamp to run blu ray gear. some mac blu ray programs do exsisit. I use windows 7 on my mini to run blu ray. I use cyberlink

 

[Gymnut]

There are workarounds to playing Blu-Ray discs under Mac OSX, however, if you want to author(burn) BD-R discs under Mac OSX, afaik, only Apple's Final Cut Pro 7, Adobe Encore, & Roxio's Toast Titanium provide Blu-Ray authoring, with Encore the only one that allows you to create customized menus & sub menus; Whereas FCP7 & Toast authoring First Play discs.