Tuesday, January 8, 2008

I've been meaning to pick up one of those XBox 360 HD-DVD kits for a while now, but I've been too lazy to get my butt to a store and bring it home. Well, now that Paramount has joined Warner Brothers in going Blu-Ray only, you can hear that death bell ringing high up in the steeple of the format war. I didn't care too much who won, just that someone did. Looks like the forks are flying at high-velocity towards that HD-DVD pig now. I hope Apple comes out with Mac Pros with Blu-Ray opticals in them at MacWorld... that would make my day. Anyway, glad I didn't spend the money on a 360 HD-DVD drive that is destined to quickly become an afterthought and obsolete.

Update
Well, Apple unleashed the Mac Pro hounds a week before MacWorld and there is no mention of Blu-Ray. With the current events being too... current... I assume that Apple had to make a decision about any Blu-Ray or HD-DVD support months ago to ensure the design worked properly and that the manufacturing process had enough time to get product built ready to ship. So the seeming death of HD-DVD came later than Apple had time to properly respond to. I could always buy a drive and slap it into the new enclosure.

And yes, I am going place a BTO for one of the shiny new Mac Pros...

• Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)


• 4GB (4 x 1GB)


• 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s


• 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s


• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (Two dual-link DVI)


• One 16x SuperDrive


• Apple wireless Mighty Mouse


• Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) + Mac OS X

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