Leopard 10.5.2 Released! MBP with Blu soon?

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I think you guys are missing several key things here.

1) Time Capsule is made for progressive time machine backups. It is still to a hard drive that can and will fail. The best way to archive data is still optical media.

2) Steve was referring to the rental model only. until the day that the standard set up in a vast majority of homes is internet speeds greater then 50mb/s and a RAID server with greater then 50TB of storage, optical media will still be the preferred way to purchase movies. Music is a little different but you will start to see the same draw backs pretty soon.

3) Apple is a major partner with Sony.

4) Apple has a very large vested interest in video/audio production, including authoring. Blu-Ray being among them.

5) Apple learned this same lesson back in 2000 with not including CD burners and made up for it with something a lot better.

There is still a lot up in the air with Blu-Ray and the HD format wars in general. Price for optical drives being one of them. it also could be failure rate of the current hardware.

A lot goes into making a decision as to when and how to add something like a Blu-ray drive. It's not as simple as taking a drive off the shelf and slapping in a box and then mass producing it. This is to say nothing about the software that has to be written/Modified, tested, deployed, readied, and laying out time tables for upgrades and contingency plans for unforeseen issues.

Have faith.