AMEX Digital Announces External Blu-ray Drive for Macs

October 15th, 2008 at 3:00 PM - News by John Martellaro

Steve Jobs has already said that Apple isnit going to go with Blu-ray for now, but those who just have to have it anyway, AMEX Digital has announced its USB external Portable Super Multi-Drive for Intel Macs.

The slot loading Blu-ray drive has the following features:

• Latest Technology can supports the 12cm and 8cm disc
• BD-RE/-R (SL) 2X Speed Writing / Reading
• BD-RE/-R (DL) 1X Speed Writing / 1.6X Speed Reading
• BD-ROM (SL / DL) 2X Speed Reading
• Writes DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL discs at up to 4x speed
• Writes DVD-R and DVD+R discs at up to 8x speed
• Writes DVD-RW discs at up to 6x speed and DVD+RW discs at up to 8x speed
• Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
• Writes CD-R discs at up to 24x speed
• Writes CD-RW discs at up to 16x speed
• Reads CDs at up to 24x speed

AMEX Portable Super Multi Drive (black)

The external drive is compatible with Macs with Intel Core 2 Duo or faster and Mac OS X. It is available in black or white and is priced at US$289.00.

A search for blank Blu-ray media, 50 GB, showed that the best current prices are about US$27 each.