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OWC announces external Blu-Ray drive

Summary: Other World Computing (OWC) today announced its new line of Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drives for the Mac. They're the first Blu-ray external drives on the market that offer four interfaces, including FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.

Jason D. O'Grady

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OWC Mercury Pro Optical Drive Solutions

Other World Computing (OWC) today announced its new line of Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drives for the Mac. They're the first Blu-ray external drives on the market that offer four interfaces, including FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA. The OWC Mercury Pro drives feature 4x Blu-ray disc write speed for burning up to 1 gigabyte of data per minute; data transfer rate of up to 150MB per second; plug and play compatibility with both Windows and Mac.

Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drives are compatible with iTunes, iDVD 5, DVD Studio Pro and Roxio Toast, among others and start at US$499.99.

Topics: Mobility, Apple, Hardware

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  • A couple of points

    * Contrary to what this blog post would like you to believe, this drive is not just for the Mac, but also works on XP and Vista.

    * You can't watch Blu-Ray movies with this drive on a Mac, although you can on a PC that has the right hardware.
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