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Blu-Ray MacBook Pro Announcement Next Week?
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woah...that is cool. a little pricey though. perhaps it is pointless to indulge in self-torture via waiting for "the next" upgrade... its just the case design that scares me...i've read bad things about the case design...that there should be magnetic clasps, (i dont know if that is a word), and mostly that the screen has a limited (126 degrees or something) flexibiltiy. do you pros find this to be a disadvantage? (and mabey they will improve the screens more)
lol no way in hell they'll add blu-ray to the macbook pro next week
however, I hope they update the ACDs so they support HDCP. I don't want to go and buy a $600 monitor to have it not support the latest standards and not work in a year or two when I do get a computer with a BD-RW.
however, I hope they update the ACDs so they support HDCP. I don't want to go and buy a $600 monitor to have it not support the latest standards and not work in a year or two when I do get a computer with a BD-RW.
You got me curious as to how much extra it'd cost so I went to the Dell site and priced up an XPS M1710 Blu-Ray Edition as follows:
2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo
Vista Home Premium
2Gb 667Mhz Memory
160Gb 5,200rpm HDD
Blu-Ray Burner
512Mb 7950 GTX
a/g wireles card
internal bluetooth
1 Year Warranty
17" 1600x1200 screen
Total Price - $4,019!
Granted, it's got a faster graphics card than the MBP but other than that and the blu-ray drive (and the slower, non-Santa Rosa, processor) the spec is the same as the 17" MBP which goes for $2,799. That's over $1,200 more which kind of answers the question as to why Apple didn't stick a blu-ray drive in, no?
Mac book pro's (at least the 17" models) do in fact already contain blue-ray capabilities. The hardware is there, it is just that apple hasn't gotten around to putting out the software. My friend just enlightened me to this info today (I saw it on his MBP). There is software you can download that will BR enable your mbp now. I believe my friend said the software was by the name of "toaster"?? Has anyone else heard of this?
What?? No. No. No. No. There is no Blu-Ray/HD-DVD drive in ANY Apple product factory installed by Apple at the time of this posting.
unless my friend is a supremely super pathological/convincing lier, 17" mbps are indeed blueray capable, with the use of certain software called something like "toaster". I also saw the br options on his screen. (even DL-BR). I think my friend has better things to do with his time than make up random crap. (although i'm suprised i've never heared of that before) p.s.--will 4 gigs show noticeable difference over 2 in gaming and basic applications (no graphic design)???
Since the copy protection is so broken as it is already why care? It's not like HDCP will every work anyway, I rather not buy "features" which lock me in..
You never know...
Are you just saying that because you just bought a MBP and are nervous they might add a Blu-Ray drive?
All I want is a 13.3'' MBP...
There is a web site where you can get your MBP (17") upgraded to a BluRay drive... but it's ~$800 and you can only read/write, no movies. http://fastmac.com/slim_bluray.php
EDIT: oh, oops, didn't see that earlier part.
EDIT: oh, oops, didn't see that earlier part.
i doubt this will happen....but i guess it's possible. i wouldn't mind seeing it, but i'd feel bad for those who just bought a new MBP
You misunderstood what I was saying. Yeah toaster will let you burn BR discs, but since there are no Apple installed BR drives in any Mac that option is useless. There are only two ways to get BR in a Mac: you either buy an external/internal(MacPro) drive off Newegg (and hope it works) or you get a drive from FastMac.
Your friend is confused. Toast is an optical disc burning program from Roxio that's been upgraded to support Blu Ray drives. However no Apple hardware ships with a Blu Ray drive. If you bought Toast, it would give you an option somewhere that would say "Blu Ray", but you can't use it on a Macbook Pro, because you don't have a Blu Ray drive.
Yeah I know it's broken, but they can change it, and paying $600 for something that might not work in a year for everything is just stupid.
I haven't gotten mine yet.. I'm probably getting in July.
But Apple wouldn't have updated the MBPs on Tuesday if they were going to announce a blu-ray drive next week.. they'd have to deal with a ton of returns and stuff. It would just be stupid and they'd lose money.
but since aacs is broken so is hdcp
Not quite. HDCP is independent of AACS. HDCP hasn't been really broken, just bypassed.
yes i know what they are. but what im saying is one you have the movie on your drive do w/ it as you pls no more hdcp crap. but as i understand it all the vid cards for the past few years has had hdcp enabled so no reason to believe mbp video card dont have it.