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MacBook with Blu-Ray and Networked HDTV from Apple?

Saturday October 11, 2008 11:59 am PDT by Arnold Kim
More rumors are trickling out in the days before Apple's notebook media event scheduled on October 14th, 2008.

EdibleApple reports that Kevin Rose revealed a new rumor at a live recording of the Diggnation podcast (not yet available). According to the report Rose said that the new MacBooks will support Blu-Ray drives.

Meanwhile, Jason Calacanis founder of Weblogs, Inc, claims that Apple is working on a networked television.

These LCD HDTVs will be fully networked, with the ability to stream all your iTunes content from your Mac or PC. In fact, Calacanis told me they'll function like a standard TV with an Apple TV box, only without the need for the box.

Weblogs, Inc was the original parent company for Engadget and was sold to AOL for an estimated $25 million in 2005.

Rose was recently quite accurate in his iPod and iTunes predictions for Apple's September event. We've never heard a previous rumor from Calacanis, so it's unknown how accurate his sources tend to be.
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emaja
44 months ago
If the Mac Books have a BD drive at the current price points, that would be a HUGE victory for Apple. A high powered, dual core laptop running OS X with BluRay? AWESOME!
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puckhead193
44 months ago
cool now if it made its way into the macpro line a lot of people would be happy.
But i can't wait for tuesday!!!! Maybe i should have waited with my new sony... :/
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thecritix
44 months ago
fantastic...

Making me wish I had some £ for a MPB rather than my 06 MB.. :(
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Grimace
44 months ago
Doing full TVs could be pretty awesome -- although would it be a real Apple TV? Is the :apple:TV box done for good?
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dohardthings
44 months ago
this is interesting it may be a replacement for the mini and tv that are current
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Low
44 months ago
if blue-ray then i guess apple will be getting over 15k of my money!! hurry up!!
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justflie
44 months ago
ummm......... YES PLEASE!!!

If true, Apple is really making a move to make anything related to entertainment in your house have their logo on it. I'm ok with that :)
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Grimace
44 months ago
I can't see the stock MacBooks have a Blu-ray drive - maybe as an upgrade option.

Frankly, I think the same of the MBP -- the 17" and pricier 15" will have it, but not the baseline 15".
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KindredMAC
44 months ago
Before everyone creams their underoos please take another look at the rumor....
It says "Support Blu-ray". It does not say INCLUDES Blu-Ray.... "Support".

I'll believe it on Tuesday. It is too far fetched to be accurate to have Blu-Ray as a BTO at this point when the MacPros and iMacs don't even have it.

Remember people the EXTERNAL BDRs are $500-$700.

What I really think this means is that 10.5.6 is coming out on Tuesday that will have built in support instead of having to use Toast.
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dohardthings
44 months ago
will the and one more thing be a game console :rolleyes::rolleyes:
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