Q: anyone know of any BD drives for iBook G4?
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Jul 31, 2012 12:10 AMby Ronda Wilson,You want an internal Blu-ray drive? From everything I've read, I don't believe that's possible. Apple (and the Mac OS) do not support Blu-ray, even in the most up-to-date Macs. I'm not even sure you could get an external drive to work, since it's unsupported by the OS.
Even a DVD-RW (SuperDrive) would be very slow in writing to DVD in all but the last iteration of the iBook G4, in which it was standard in the 14-inch model.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/specs/ibook_g4_1.42_14.html
I'll ask around and see if anybody has any ideas, but I think this is a no-go.
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Aug 6, 2012 1:12 PMby darthrevan945,I know there a few 3rd party softwares that will allow playback so im not too concerned about that.. http://www.macblurayplayer.com/
that one for example but might be intel only, i didnt check.
But I know that the iBook will accept any PATA optical drive i throw at it, just needs to be slot loading for the case. And all of them that I found are SATA.
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Aug 6, 2012 5:40 PMby Ronda Wilson,darthrevan945 wrote:
I know there a few 3rd party softwares that will allow playback so im not too concerned about that.. http://www.macblurayplayer.com/
that one for example but might be intel only, i didnt check.
Looks like it is Intel only:
http://www.macblurayplayer.com/system-requirements.htm
Intel Core2 Duo 2.4GHz processor or higher recommended
