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Commodore to release PC64 (C64 portable replica)

Commodore USA, makers of the ubiquitous Commodore 64 — or lovingly “C64” to nerdies (like most of the people here at MacPCWiz are) — seem set to release a portable PC set to emulate the “bread box” aesthetics of its famous ancestor. The Commodore PC64 is touted to be an “exact replica”, thereby increasing its

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DIGISTOR 25GB BD-R Blu-ray media Burn Test

We got a 25-pack spindle of DIGISTOR’s 25GB BD-R Blu-ray media. The blank Blu-ray discs were a perfect match for our brand spanking new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray burner that we just unpacked. Here comes the inevitable burn test.

Our trusty TEST BED:

ASUS K50IJ Series laptop, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Core 2 Duo Proc, Vista
For burning,

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DIGISTOR External USB Blu-ray Burner on a MacBook Pro

All you Mac lovers out there are probably getting a bit lonely out there, what with all the bad iPad press you’re getting. So we’re gonna show you some love as we test out our newly unboxed DIGISTOR Self-Powered Blu-ray Burner on a MacBook Pro.

DIGISTOR External Blu-Ray Burner on a MacBook Pro

Let’s get the

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Unboxed: DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner, USB 2.0, Tray load

We just un-boxed our new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner. We got it in the same package that contained the 250GB Portable Hard Drive that we unboxed and tested a couple of days back.

We got one of these, and we're excited!

This is the tray-load version, and connects to your system via USB 2.0. As I’ve

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Dave Helmly talks Blu-ray Authoring with Adobe Encore

Adobe’s in-house tech/software guru Dave Helmly talks about a topic we very much love (because we’re Blu-ray addicts) — Blu-ray authoring. He tackles this with Adobe software (of course), this one with Adobe Encore. Enjoy the authoring lesson, it’s 20-plus minutes of cool tips and tricks — a veritable treasure trove of stuff you need

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nVidia ION allows Blu-Ray viewing on a netbook

nVidia’s ION graphics chip is looking more like a winner by the moment. We talked about the nVidia ION’s graphics capabilities at length, and what a boon they can be to netbooks. But now, David Ragones, product line manager at Nvidia claims here at a CNET.com article that nVidia ION for netbooks supports blu-ray playback.

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Buffalo busts out its USB 3.0 12x Blu-Ray Burner

Never mind that you’d have no USB 3.0 port to plug it in (it’s backward compatible to USB 2.0), never mind that no blank Blu-Ray disc can be had at 12X speed… never mind all that. Optical storage company BUFFALO still pushes out this theoretical speed demon, the BR-X1216U3. Read more from Engadget.com:

Sure, your computer

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