6X Blu-ray Drive Made for Apple Mac
July 2, 2008 by Sean R.
Filed under Misc. Gadgets, Peripherals
I have my personal thoughts on Blu-ray, mostly concerning its viability as a successor to DVD for pre-recorded movies, especially in the face of downloads, but there’s one area where a big optical disc is still useful: backing up large chunks of data.
MCE Technologies’ new Mac specific Blu-ray burner takes care of this. Gone is the need for specific software. The Blu-ray SuperDrive behaves just like any other optical drive. Slide it into your Apple Mac Pro and you can drag, drop and burn files right from the Finder.
The 6x speed in the title refers to authoring one 25GB layer. For dual layer burning, you’ll get just 4x, and there’s a twist. The drive can also read and write CD’s and DVD’s, and burn logos into the discs with LightScribe.
The MCE 6X Blu-ray Recordable Drive plus one free 25 GB Blu-ray disc is priced at $499.00 USD.
You can also get a bundle with Roxio Toast 9 and the HD/BD plug-in which is priced at 599.00 USD.
Can we use this drive to view blu-ray movies ? What software will it work with to view movies ?