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SONY Pushing Hard to Deliver BD Drives for Notebooks

By linathael. Original by Lionel - 22/10/2007 09:20:23 CEST - Category: CD Drives - Source: CDR Info
To compete with Toshiba and its combo HD-DVD drives for notebook, SONY and NEC through their Joint Venture Optiarc announced a combo Blu-ray drive:

Known as BC-5500A, it burns DVD at 8x, CD at 16x and read BD media at 2x (the notebook will still need to be equipped with a HDCP chips). The BC-5500A being a tray-based model with a 12.5mm thickness, one can not install it in current MacBook/MacBook Pro, as Apple only uses 9.5mm-thick optical drive modules.
So for future revision, Apple will have either to wait for 9.5mm slot-in models to arrive, or slightly increase the thickness of its notebooks in order to adapt with current BD drive offers.
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