hi all,
I was wondering if any of you have ever come accross a bluray drive compatiable with the ibook g4.. The only slot loading laptop BD drives i have seen are all sata. or is there an adapter that would allow the use of a sata drive?
iBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), G4 1.2ghz, 1.25gb, 60gb
Are you wanting to just watch Blueray discs?
Yes I do want to watch them, i take the laptop everywhere and most of my stuff is bluray now..
And most of the BD drives have the capability to write DVDs which i use a lot. But if i take the time to install a new one, I want a BD drive not just a DVD-RW.
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.
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.
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
anyone know of any BD drives for iBook G4?
