Anyone who was hoping for a built-in Blu-ray drive in their next-gen iMac is gonna have to wait till mid 2008. That’s when Intel will replace their current Bearlake chipset with their Eaglelake chipset, which will officially support Blu-ray. Apple is infamous for waiting before they adopt new technologies, so in a sense this comes as no surprise. The question is, how badly do you want an integrated Blu-ray drive in your next iMac? Bad enough to warrant not buying one without a high-def drive?
I haven’t purchased a Mac yet, but I’ve been wanting to really badly lately. Mainly because I’ve used Pro Tools on a PC and on a Mac and it just works better on a Mac. I’ve been hesitant though because I kind of want to wait for some next-gen features like Blu-ray, Leopard, Penryn Quad Core CPUs, etc.
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