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11-28-2010, 07:38 AM
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Looking to upgrade but I can't seem to find any internal blu-ray drives that would work for a 15.4 macbook pro. Are they out there (for a reasonable price)?
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11-28-2010, 07:57 AM
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11-28-2010, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Demon_Hunter | That's disappointing but I suppose it makes my decision easier. The only reason I care for Blu-Ray is for the extras they get (which are often pretty sweet) and I wanted to get Blu-Ray versions of movies and series' that I wanted buy but I guess that's a non-issue now.
I'm wondering though, if a 3rd party company made a slot-loading Blu-Ray drive what would stop someone from installing it and basically making their MBP blu-ray capable? I actually saw one on FastMac.com but it was $1000 which is insane, lol.
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11-28-2010, 09:04 AM
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11-28-2010, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Kwesi I'm wondering though, if a 3rd party company made a slot-loading Blu-Ray drive what would stop someone from installing it and basically making their MBP blu-ray capable? I actually saw one on FastMac.com but it was $1000 which is insane, lol. | The problem is, Apple doesn't support BD because of contract issues, so you don't have any media player for Blu-Ray content for OS X. You'd have to boot to Windows in order to watch the movies. If you're willing to use Windows on the machine, I'd just get an external BD drive, doesn't take that much space in a laptop bag.
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11-28-2010, 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Kwesi That's disappointing but I suppose it makes my decision easier. The only reason I care for Blu-Ray is for the extras they get (which are often pretty sweet) and I wanted to get Blu-Ray versions of movies and series' that I wanted buy but I guess that's a non-issue now.
I'm wondering though, if a 3rd party company made a slot-loading Blu-Ray drive what would stop someone from installing it and basically making their MBP blu-ray capable? I actually saw one on FastMac.com but it was $1000 which is insane, lol. | Thats the price you have to pay for being a mac owner. everything for mac is more expensive then windows. plus add the lack of support for the mac OS's and you have a group of people just screaming to be over charged.
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11-29-2010, 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Alucard817 Thats the price you have to pay for being a mac owner. everything for mac is more expensive then windows. plus add the lack of support for the mac OS's and you have a group of people just screaming to be over charged. | This isn't exactly true. Extra memory, larger hard drives, disk drives, Display replacements, and similar replacements and upgrades cost about the same as any other PC. The difference is that Apple doesn't offer accidental damage coverage and the computers themselves are more expensive. Of course, they are genrally less accessible but I'm ok with that.
In addition there are quite a few services that have popped up that make repairing a mac much less expensive.
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11-30-2010, 08:24 AM
| | THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER! | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA; Mitchellville, Maryland | | | For pretty much everything, if you put "Apple" in the name of the product it will be more expensive than a similar product without it. But it's not always necessary to make the distinction. Not of the parts I upgraded my laptop with (so far just the HDD and memory) had the "Apple" label but work perfectly and cost about the same as any other PC replacement part. I can see the display being more expensive though since those are proprietary.
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