If you liked the new iMacs that we talked about here, howzabout a Blu-Ray upgrade mod kit for your Mac Mini? The last refresh also benefited the Mac Mini, and now AMEX is offering Blu-Ray goodness to pimp up your Mac Mini a little bit more. Ubergizmo.com reports:
While Apple isn’t going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format just yet, that doesn’t mean everyone else is doing nothing, with Amex Digital rolling out the new Blu-ray Drive Upgrade Kit. Also known as the BD-UG1, it will retail for $199 while supporting Blu-ray recording should you happen to rely on BootCamp on your Mac mini while work under the Windows operating system.
Look at the full article here from Ubergizmo.com.
Amex Blu-Ray Upgrade Kit
As I have been saying to the dudes and dudettes here at MacPCWiz, as long as Steve “bag-of-hurt” Jobs keeps stalling on Blu-ray technology for the Macs, people will find and find ways to do it. Blu-Ray is just that much a treat to people for Apple to still keep it from their customers. We at MacPCWiz prefer doing it via external Blu-Ray burner, some people do mods like this.
From the pic, it’s obviously a replacement of the 12.7mm slot-loading optical drive — the original would be one of those DVD burners — with a Blu-Ray burner. It’s easy enough to find a slimline blu-ray burner, lots of those available. (Check here for a list of slimline Blu-Ray drives). In fact, for tech weenies like us, it actually looks easy enough to try on our own.
Engadget.com gently reminds you, however, that the Mac Mini still has no native support for production Blu-Ray disc movies (yes, those Blu-Ray movie discs you bought), so you’re going to have to boot to a Windows-based OS to get yourself really going with this upgrade kit. Read the full article here.
Remember that the good-looking guys and gals from MacPCWiz provided you with a way to play Blu-Ray on your Mac, right here. Remember?
As for the AMEX upgrade kit, MacPCWiz heard that they have no direct sales channel, so good luck to you guys who are trying to find them. In any case, we think the pressure is bound to get strong enough to finally convince Cupertino to see the error of their non-BluRay ways.
