FastMac announces Blu-Ray drive for Apple Mac

FastMac has launched their new 4x dual layer Blu-Ray Disc drive for Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 systems.

It would sell for $579.95.

Blu-Ray format is the next generation storage format developed by Sony. The most popular version of the drive is being shipped with Sony Playstation 3 gaming console.

It is competing against HD DVD format developed by Toshiba.

The company said that a dual-layer disc can store up to 50GB of content.

FastMac further said that the drive is compatible with third-party software including Roxio Toast 8 Titanium and Adobe Premiere CS3. It currently only supports burning data as the Mac OS X is currently unable to run Blu-Ray media.

The drive is also compatible with standard DVD and CD media.

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