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The black dahlia

I have a large blu-ray collection, I live in an area with poor internet speeds. My nearest video rental store is 25 miles away. I have a 60 pioneer kuro plasma TV. I use a 8 core MacPro with dual 30 cinema displays for work and play. If you have a 60 plasma why would you not want a Blu-ray appliance for your playback? The Mac Pro would get a desktop-grade tray-loading BRD. This should be an option because the price is more reasonable and Mac Pros are more likely to be used by professionals that could utilize the drive. But that doesnt explain why Apple would all of a sudden stop being Apple just to offer something that relatively few people use at a price that is considered too expensive for most and that Apple is trying to compete against. It just doesnt make sense. I have tried Apples HD itunes service and it stunk. I am not a fan of cloud computing in general because it means I have to rely on someone elses service to access my data. So far I have not been impressed with any of the offerings. Nothing looks good after Blu-ray and Apple and others had to make concessions with bitrate and HD for the internet. But you need remember that iTS quickly beat out CD sales and is still beating out Amazon despite its higher bitrate and no DRM. Convenience and good enough is what matters to most people and having a 1000 BRD in a notebook that dies on battery before I can finish a 2 hour movie is not good enough or convenient. Im not sure why you havent stripped the DRM from your BR movies and stored them on a HDD. This way can travel with them much easier and arent using the originals which can get scratched. Does Apple have to keep making things slimmer now that they have a slim option in the Macbook Air? If you want slim, and dont care about Blu-Ray buy the MacBook Air? Maybe they will even put out a netbook type laptop too? The slimmer thing is a PITA, but Apple still focuses on it, even with the new Nano. Who would have thought it could be that much thinner from the original Nano. The MBA doesnt work because it uses a slower C2D and has other limitations that make it far from ideal in price, performance and connectivity for most people. It has its niche, but its small. Maybe they will choose a slightly thicker and bigger laptop form in order to put Blu-Ray in, and perhaps a bigger battery. Regardless if you want to play Blu-Ray movies or not, few people would not benefit from longer runtime. All of this would be possible with a case redesign widely rumored and a move to 16×9 screens hopefully with 1080p resolution. Larger battery in a larger case to hold a larger optical drive that can only hold 50GB of data, at most and has horrible read times and even worse writing times when compared to Flash and HDD? Does that really seem like an option to you? I think that Steve Jobs sits on the Board of Disney and probably owns more stock than Walts kids. Disney is sold out to Blu-Ray, every studio is sold out to Blu-Ray, every other laptop manufacturer has Blu-Ray options and some are dang cheap. Apples core markets include Video professionals, and in 2005 Steve declared it the year of HD! Its only 3 years late Steve. BR in a home appliance for your HDTV is not the same as BR in a 1000 notebook. If Apple was really all about Blu-ray why hasnt it been in the Mac Pro as an option before now? Why do the posters here think that a BR option in a MB is inevitable when no other Mac has gotten the option despite the more pressing need and lower cost for the Mac Pro. My Biggest fear, as stated here by others is will they do it in October or wait for the big Macworld announcement? Because I think the announcement for Blu-Ray would have to be a sweeping announcement of all new hardware across the entire Mac lineup and cinema Displays. With everything moving to 16X9 screens and getting Blu-ray support. What will this do for sales? Will there be an explosion of sales for ugly Macs with large tray-loading BRD? Retro appeal. Or are you talking about 1000 Macs with 1000 BRD? Not much of a market there. I have literally had thousands of dollars in the bank waiting for the Blu-Ray announcement. They dont get my dollars until they announce it. I only get a new laptop every five years, so it has to count when I pull the trigger. If you want a desktop Mac you may be in luck, but dont count on an internal drive if you want a notebook. There seems to be too much looking at it from your POV and comparing Apple to other OEMs. If you look at it from Apples POV there are plenty of reasons why they wouldnt offer it and some why they cant offer it.