Is there an internal blu-ray drive for macbook pro yet?

Hi,

Please note: *You Must Have Your Own Caddy, Bezel Or The Mounting bracket / Adaptor To Be Fixed To This Bare Internal Optical Drive. Burning software not included.

Also, this is not a burner, only a player.

Perhaps it was true that there was no internal bluray drive for any mac available in 2012 when this post and your reply was made, but that is no longer true. Other World Computing(MacSales.com) sells several internal bluray drives, for several different mac computers. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find one that will surely work with my Mid-2012 MacBook Pro. I bought an internal bluray drive from there, originally intending for it to go into my Mid-2010 Mac Mini, but I was taking my MacBook Pro apart to upgrade the hard drive, and thought I might rather have the bluray drive in my portable MacBook Pro, rather than my Mac Mini. Alas, it would not work. I have been looking to find if there is one available for my MacBook Pro, and cannot find one(OWC sells ones for MANY Apple computers, but, oddly, not for my exact model and year of MacBook).

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Nope, there's no blueray drive for the MBP or indeed any Mac. I doubt that there ever will be as Apple are moving away from optical media and towards online delivery of software.

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rosykes wrote:

Man - well - any recommendations on an external one then?

Do a Google search and read the reviews on the them. Personally, I do not have one. Another old schooler.🙂

There is no support in the Mac OS for playing Blu-Ray, even on an external drive. There is third-party Blu-Ray player software, but it's new and reportedly still buggy.

http://www.macblurayplayer.com/

The software that rips blurays (as a backup) is called MakeMKV

http://makemkv.com/

Jordy1 wrote:

The software that rips blurays (as a backup) is called MakeMKV

http://makemkv.com/

Thats the one! cheers Jordy1! Its v good!

actually, ignore the uj-265 - that's for my imac. The one for a Macbook Pro is the UJ-267

Did you have any issues with the the UJ 265 for the iMac? I have this model and the slot loading mechanism seems not to work for some reason?

The Mac reads the drive but the loading is hit or miss.

OWC has this one.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Panasonic/UJ267/