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Blu-ray for SATA macbooks?

If you can find one slim enough and are willing to pay the price, it'll work under BootCamp, but not sure about OS X environment. I think it'll work as a data drive, but not for video.
 
I don't know of any 9.5mm-height Blu-Ray drives. If you can find a slot-loading model, it should work, barring any unforeseen incompatibilities.
 
NewMacbookPlz said:
If you can find one slim enough and are willing to pay the price, it'll work under BootCamp, but not sure about OS X environment. I think it'll work as a data drive, but not for video.
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under OSX you cannot play back BR videos natively (only Toast Titanium can burn movies), but it can burn data to BR discs.

Bill Gates said:
I don't know of any 9.5mm-height Blu-Ray drives. If you can find a slot-loading model, it should work, barring any unforeseen incompatibilities.
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there are no 9.5mm drives, but apparently the unibodies now use 12.5mm drives, so it is possible. :)
 
Bill Gates said:
I don't know of any 9.5mm-height Blu-Ray drives. If you can find a slot-loading model, it should work, barring any unforeseen incompatibilities.
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sorry, had a misunderstanding with another person who was providing the information to me. the unibodies still use the 9.5mm drives. which is unfortunate.

9.5mm BR slot-loading drives are hard to come across... and expensive (do they even exist?)
 
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