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Obi Wan's Ghost · May 12, 2006, 01:24 AM

http://www.ipodhub.net/articles/2006...uray_macs.html

The drives themselves will probably be of the two-speed Panasonic variety featuring backwards compatibility with DVD-RAM (5 speed), DVD+R/RW (8x), DVD-R/RW (8x), DVD-ROM(8x), CD-R/RW (32x), CD-ROM (24x) and CD-Audio discs

Some bad news for iMacs and notebooks though

Salty · May 12, 2006, 02:42 AM

who cares?

Eriamjh · May 12, 2006, 06:22 AM

Laptops will get HD drives next year. What's so bad? Are you aching to play one of the 3 movies currently on in HD on your laptop?

Dakar · May 12, 2006, 07:13 AM

I'm not to worried about it. I doubt it'll be a free upgrade.

Let's not forget there will probably be 64-bit [intel] chips in the Macs as well. Its been a big year for upgrades.

Obi Wan's Ghost · May 12, 2006, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by Salty

who cares?

I do. I have to back up all the data I collected travelling around the galaxy.

Mr Kino · May 12, 2006, 09:56 AM

It is about time!

Dark Helmet · May 12, 2006, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Salty

who cares?

People who want 25 - 50GB on one disk.

Did you say the same when DVD burners came out?

goMac · May 12, 2006, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

People who want 25 - 50GB on one disk.

Did you say the same when DVD burners came out?

I have only 60 gigs of data on my drive. Honestly, I don't have anything to burn that would take 25-60 gigs. This isn't to say I won't have that much data someday. HD-DVD just offers more advantage to me. Being able to rip HD-DVD's? I like that. Burning 25-60 gigs of data? Don't care that much.

Dark Helmet · May 12, 2006, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by goMac

I have only 60 gigs of data on my drive. Honestly, I don't have anything to burn that would take 25-60 gigs. This isn't to say I won't have that much data someday. HD-DVD just offers more advantage to me. Being able to rip HD-DVD's? I like that. Burning 25-60 gigs of data? Don't care that much.

Sorry, but I saw that coming for a mile.

GoMac only has 60 gigs on his hard drive so Blu-ray is meh and HD-DVD is better.

Uh huh.

goMac · May 12, 2006, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet

Sorry, but I saw that coming for a mile.

GoMac only has 60 gigs on his hard drive so Blu-ray is meh and HD-DVD is better.

Uh huh.

Most of that space is movies (I own them). Why would I want to take my movies off of optical media, and then reburn them to optical media?

I don't think you're going to find many people on this forum who have 50 gigs of data they need to burn.

Demonhood · May 12, 2006, 11:17 AM

um, i have more than 50GB of pictures alone.
but that's probably not the norm.

Dakar · May 12, 2006, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Demonhood

um, i have more than 50GB of pictures alone.

Man, your wrist must hurt.

residentEvil · May 12, 2006, 11:19 AM

i too have, right around 42GB of photos...and none of it is pr0n. THAT is probably not the norm

Obi Wan's Ghost · May 12, 2006, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by goMac

Most of that space is movies (I own them). Why would I want to take my movies off of optical media, and then reburn them to optical media?

Because optical media gets scratched you foolish mortal.

Salty · May 12, 2006, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Man, your wrist must hurt.

Clever

Dark Helmet · May 12, 2006, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by goMac

Most of that space is movies (I own them). Why would I want to take my movies off of optical media, and then reburn them to optical media?

I don't think you're going to find many people on this forum who have 50 gigs of data they need to burn.

Ah, most mac users are the creative group and you can bet your Nintendo Wii that they have at least 50 gigs of files they need backing up. Heck just look at what iMovie takes up.

Personally I don't know many people that want to copy 25 gig movies from a CHEAP optical disk to an expensive hard drive.

At that rate you'll fit 4 movies on one 100 Gig hard drive.

ort888 · May 12, 2006, 12:24 PM

50 gig discs would be a godsend for me at work. I spend so much time backing up and cataloging DVDs. It would be so nice to only have to burn 1/10 of what I do now.

Dakar · May 12, 2006, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Salty

Clever

thank you

Dark Helmet · May 12, 2006, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by ort888

50 gig discs would be a godsend for me at work. I spend so much time backing up and cataloging DVDs. It would be so nice to only have to burn 1/10 of what I do now.

Ya but Apple should make it HD-DVD because you can copy the giant movie to your computer

The only downside is you only get 25 gigs for burning.

Anyone want to take a guess over which the pro market would rather have? The ability to copy huge movies to your computer or burn tons of data?

Obi Wan's Ghost · May 13, 2006, 12:47 PM

I was just thinking. When these Blu-ray disc babies get to 200GB officially and the write speeds are over 150mbps they could be used in HD cams for shooting long or lots of scenes.

Baby bring it on and kill that HDDVD ****.

Busemann · May 13, 2006, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by goMac

Most of that space is movies (I own them). Why would I want to take my movies off of optical media, and then reburn them to optical media?

I don't think you're going to find many people on this forum who have 50 gigs of data they need to burn.

I have a good 100GB of music, so being able to burn all of that on just a couple of BluRay discs would be sweet.

JoshuaZ · May 13, 2006, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Busemann

I have a good 100GB of music, so being able to burn all of that on just a couple of BluRay discs would be sweet.

I ditto this to the max.

Chuckit · May 13, 2006, 02:24 PM

Even if this is true, is Blu-Ray inherently writable or something? I don't see any mention that it will be able to burn Blu-Ray discs. It may just play them.

Obi Wan's Ghost · May 13, 2006, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Even if this is true, is Blu-Ray inherently writable or something? I don't see any mention that it will be able to burn Blu-Ray discs. It may just play them.

Doh Apple or anyone won't ship a pro computer without a rewritable drive ever. Anyway the article says it is a 2x rewritable drive by Panasonic. I think that is 72mb/s.

Chuckit · May 13, 2006, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Obi Wan's Ghost

Doh Apple or anyone won't ship a pro computer without a rewritable drive ever.

They have shipped pro computers that can read a format but not write it. I own a couple with combo drives (read DVD, write CD).

But I guess I just missed what "two-speed" meant. I didn't think of "2x speed" as much as "a two-speed blender."

Uncle Skeleton · May 13, 2006, 03:22 PM

2x speed still might mean read speed. Either way, there's way too many "probably's" and "likely's" in that article for anyone but hard core fanboys to spend more than a few minutes analyzing it. I hereby predict vaporware.

Obi Wan's Ghost · May 13, 2006, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton

2x speed still might mean read speed. Either way, there's way too many "probably's" and "likely's" in that article for anyone but hard core fanboys to spend more than a few minutes analyzing it. I hereby predict vaporware.

Yeah there are some mights and probablys but that's what we have come to expect from Apple. Even when they have the gear they neuter it like underclocking the MBPs GPU and disabling monitor spanning on iBooks or shipping the MBPs with slower DVDRWs than the PowerBooks etc