The Laptop DVD Burner

Finally, apple owners have opportunity to burn BD media!

And not from parallels, but from OS 10.5.  Check new WriteBD licenses software from SA Software Architecture Inc.

Product Description
Even though most current generation Blu-ray Disc drives use Serial ATA connectors, many Apple desktop systems do not have a Serial ATA connector available for connecting to optical disk drives. The WriteBD! Blu-ray Disc Drive upgrade kit provides a simple way to connect and run a re-writable Blu-ray Disc drive on most Apple desktop systems. It includes the WriteBD! software for formatting, reading and writing to re-writable Blu-ray discs, a Serial ATA (SATA) to Parallel ATA (IDE) converter board, and a power cable. You can just simply drag & drop files to and from the disc icon in Finder, or save directly from your application to the BD disc. Add and delete files just as if you were writing to a hard disk drive. There is nothing new to learn.

Product Features

• Contains everything you need to connect and use Blu-ray Disc Drives with your Apple Mac OS 10.5 machine: SATA to PATA converter board; power cable; and writing software
•  Enables drag-n-drop writing of data to 30 & 60 GByte BD-RE discs

Technical Details

• System Requirements:
•  Supports all Apple MacTM Intel and PowerPC based systems running Mac OS 10.4.x or 10.5.x.
•  512 MBytes of RAM.
•  BDA compliant rewritable Blu-ray Disc drive & 25 or 50 Gb BD-RE discs.

 

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System Requirements for Playing Blu-ray Discs

Playing high-definition content from a Blu-ray Disc is much more demanding on your PC resources than playing DVD movies. The following specifications are system recommendations for playing Blu-ray Discs on a PC.

Processor

Dual or quad core processors recommended

Intel (Minimum):

Pentium 4 541 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 840 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 930 3.0 GHz, 935 3.2GHz or 940 3.2 GHz, Core Duo T2400 1.83 GHz, Pentium M 755 2.0 GHz, Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz, or T5600 1.83 GHz

Intel (Recommended):

Pentium EE 840 3.2 GHz, 955 3.4 GHz or 965 3.73 GHz, Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz, 950 3.4 GHz or 960 3.6 GHz, Core Duo T2500 2.0 GHz, T2600 2.16 GHz, or T2700 2.33 GHz, Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8 GHz, E6400 2.13 GHz, E6600 2.4 GHz, E6700 2.66 GHZ or X6800 2.93 GHz, T7200 2.00 GHz, T7400 2.16 GHz, T7600 2.33 GHz, Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz, Core 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66 GHz, or X6800 2.93 GHz

AMD (Minimum):

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0 GHz or 4000+ 2.0 GHz, Turion 64 X2 TL-50 1.6 GHz, TL-52 1.6 GHz or TL-56 1.8 GHz

AMD (Recommended):

Athlon 64 FX FX-60 2.6 GHz or FX-62 2.8 GHz, Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz, 4400+ 2.2 GHz, 4600+ 2.4 GHz, 4800+ 2.4 GHz or 5000+ 2.6 GHz, Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz

System Memory (RAM)

512 MB (minimum), 1 GB or more is recommended

Disc Drive

Blu-ray Disc Optical drive, USB Blu-ray drive.

Graphics Card

It is recommended that you have one of the graphics cards with the following graphics processor unit (GPU) installed on your computer in order to play Blu-ray Disc titles.

Intel 965Ggraphics

•nVidia: GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7800 GTX 512, GeForce 7900 GX2, GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7950 GX2, GeForce 8400 series, GeForce 8500 series, GeForce 8600 series, GeForce 8800 series

•ATI (minumum requirements): ATI Radeon X1600 series, X1800 series, X1900 series,

•ATI (recommended requirements): ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600, 3800 series

Video RAM: Graphics card memory requires 256MB or above.

Display Devices

HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compliant display (DVI, HDMI connections) for digital output.

TV (composite, component, S-Video) or computer monitor (VGA) for analog output

Operating System

Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP

Only supports Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed

Software

PowerDVD 7 Ultra or PowerDVD 8 Ultra. Note: An easy way to determine whether your version of PowerDVD supports Blu-ray Discs is to look for the Blu-ray Disc logo on the main screen of PowerDVD. If you don’t see this logo, it is likely your version of PowerDVD doesn’t support Blu-ray Discs.

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