^^^ but it's $1000.
They're milking the market for early adopters. Their price will drop eventually, too. At some point, the MBP will come straight from Apple with either a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive pre-installed, even if only as a CTO option (for less than $1000 extra).
Either way, I wish SOMEONE would go ahead and win this format war already. At the outset, I thought surely Blu-ray would be quickly victorious, what with equal definition and double the storage capacity---but this has gone on way too long now.
They're milking the market for early adopters. Their price will drop eventually, too. At some point, the MBP will come straight from Apple with either a Blu-ray or HD DVD drive pre-installed, even if only as a CTO option (for less than $1000 extra).
Only a Pro video enthusiast will pay that amount....
For mortals like us: better get a PS3.