It should be a no-brainer prediction that one of the high-capacity optical formats will be included in an impending iteration of iMac (nice alliteration, huh?) or other new Mac, but its still anyone’s guess which of the two warring standards Steve-O will side with, and we won’t likely know until the next Macworld Keynote. (Blu-Ray is emerging as the dominant format, but you never really know with notorious contrarian Jobs.) But for those portable Mac users with ginormous storage needs, you don’t have to wait (well, maybe a month): Fastmac’s got a solution.
Fastmac announced yesterday their new slim, low-profile, slot-loading 2x Blu-Ray burner upgrade for Mac laptops. Now Mac users can enjoy burning 50GB worth of files at twice the speed, or watch a growing number commercially available BD movies like PS3 owners can.
The new burner is also Adobe certified, and supports Blu-Ray video disk authoring on Mac OS X. It works with the following models:
iBook G4
iMac G5
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro (17-inch)
Mac mini
PowerBook G3 Pismo
PowerBook G4 Titanium (667 Mhz or higher)
PowerBook G4 Aluminum
The burner works with Roxio Toast 8 Titanium or Adobe Premiere CS3 for Macs. It’ll be shipping within the month but is already available for pre-order on the FastMac site for a cool US$1K special introductory offer.
(Crossposted on Mobile Philippines)
April 5th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Blu-Ray will be available for everything.
All the companies want to have the competitive edge and by integrating a blu-ray reader or burner to their systems they can accomplish this task.
For instance there are rumors about the Nintendo Wii redoing it system so that it has a blu-ray player. When this happens I’m selling mine. But from the looks of it Blu-ray will continue to dominate.
Dansaystoday
www.usastudios.tv
March 4th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Bluray is the new standard for the dvd movies, hd dvd player has lost.
Microsoft will change to Blu-ray.
October 6th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
if microsoft pays apple or give some kind of deal then hd dvd all the way.this is how hd dvdd will win by paying truck full of moneuy
October 6th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I doubt very much that Apple will choose anything other than BluRay. They have already said they favour BluRay. At the end of the day a single layer 15gb HD-DVD disc isn’t much of an improvement on a 9gb DVD but for far more cost so BluRay is by far the better option for backups, plus there aren’t any HD-DVD PC writer drives for some reason while there have been BluRay writers available for PCs for ages. BluRay is winning the home cinema war at the moment by a narrow margin but in home computer world its leagues ahead of its rival.