FastMac debuts Blu-ray Drive for your fast (or slow) Mac

Have $800 burning a hole in your pocket and a strange urge to create Blu-ray discs with your slot-loading Mac? All four of you might dig FastMac's new Blu-ray Drive upgrade, which can fit in a wide range of Macs, including the 17-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini and Intel iMac. Apparently no love for the MacBook or 15-inch MBP, but the iBook G4 can handle it -- though it's hard to fathom stuffing one of these drives inside that oh-so-consumery laptop. The drive is rated at 8x DVD±RW and 1x BD-RW. You can write to 50GB dual-layer discs, and boot to the drive with OS X. FastMac calls the drive "Plug & Play," but the "plugging" end of that equation is going to take some adventurous exploits inside your Mac, by you, your hacker nephew or a trained computer repair guy. If you think you can stomach it, the drive is available now.

[Via MacMinute]

[DaveBG Posted Apr 6th 2007 2:39PM]

I am waiting for the Blu-ray hardware from Apple. The announced that many MAC computers will come with Blu-ray drive preinstalled :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 6th 2007 7:46PM]

Is there any Mac software that would alow me to play Blu-Ray movies with that thing?? And what about Blu-Ray movie authoring software, is any of that available on the Mac side of things?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 7th 2007 8:14AM]

adobe encore dvd will offer blue ray authoring
and toast offers to burn really large dvds on blue ray

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 7th 2007 5:55PM]

good to know. but are there any programs for the Mac which would allow me to watch a store-bought Blu-Ray movie?

[CarlosE Posted Apr 7th 2007 10:06PM]

Are you sure DVD Player that comes with OS X does not support blu-ray?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 8th 2007 5:47AM]

If Apple hasn't specifically written in Blu-Ray support then no.