Does this exist:

[zorahk]

a 9.5mm slot loading slimline sata blu ray drive?

I want to swap out the drive in my macbook pro...but...

 

[Tallest Skil]

Maybe. Let me look.

Disclaimer: Movies only work in Windows, data only works in OS X with Toast, a shareware third-party app.

I do NOT trust this site, but the product does exist:

http://www.ultradrives.com/product_info.php/cPath/22_60/products_id/1203

It is $800.

Hang on, no. That's 12.5mm.

 

[zorahk]

yeah..

 

[alexbates]

I don't think you can get a blue-ray driver for a Mac though. So even if you were able to install it, you would probably not be able to get it to work.

 

[Tallest Skil]

I'm curious what you want to do with Blu-ray that you can't already do with hard drives.

I don't think you can get a blue-ray driver for a Mac though. So even if you were able to install it, you would probably not be able to get it to work.

Oh, it works. My internal BD-RE/HD DVD-ROM drive is recognized by my MacBook Pro. HD DVD and Blu-ray movies show up on the Desktop. They just can't be played.

HandBrake can even READ from them... but they can't be ripped. Oh, well.

 

[TDM21]

FastMac.com sells Blu-ray drives/burners for the older macbooks and powerbooks so I assume its only a matter of time before they release a SATA version

 

[yegon]

When the price of BD blanks comes down a bit I'll definitely be after an external burner that'd hopefully work with my mbp. Not fussed about playback, that's what HD mkv's are for

 

[chenderson2]

I'm curious what you want to do with Blu-ray that you can't already do with hard drives.

Make Blu-ray disks from iMovie HD to play on your laptop or on an external Blu-ray player hooked up to an HD TV.

I was hoping this latest version of the MacBook Pro would have that feature. Apple says no and they don't know when or if they will.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Make Blu-ray disks from iMovie HD to play on your laptop or on an external Blu-ray player hooked up to an HD TV.

The idea is to use the iTunes library synced with an Apple TV.