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If you thought you might hold off buying a iMac until this fall so you can get Leopard and Blu-ray you’re going to be disappointed. No, Leopard hasn’t been delayed again, but Blu-ray won’t be coming until 2008.
Intel won’t be releasing their Eaglelake chipset until Q2 2008, that is when we can expect to see Blu-ray drives shipping in the new iMacs. Don’t worry, it’s only one more year.
So that raises the question, how many people are going to put off their iMac purchases for another year just to get Blu-ray? I think there will be some, but I don’t think the general masses will be too upset. The format war is still in full swing, which makes many consumers cautious to support either one. Who knows, maybe by this time next year we’ll have an idea of which one will come out victorious.
No Blu-ray for iMac’s until 2008? [via macnn]
2 Responses to “It’ll be another year before Blu-ray hits the iMac”
Paepcke April 19, 2007
Why the *** MacNN thinks that Apple is interested in the IGP (Chipset Integrated Shared Grafix Port) from Intel for the iMac? The “Blu-Ray” support for this Chipset is only a feature for the IGP. This IGP is only used in the MacBook and the MacMini – Apple troped this IGP Crap on all other products – also on Apple-TV – and installed an real GPU (from Nvidia or ATI) with real VRAM. Why should Apple wait with Blu-Ray until Intel support Blu-Ray within the Intel IGP Crap? BULLSHIT!
+1Paepcke April 19, 2007
Why the *** MacNN thinks that Apple is interested in the IGP (Chipset Integrated Shared Grafix Port) from Intel for the iMac? The “Blu-Ray” support for this Chipset is only a feature for the IGP. This IGP is only used in the MacBook and the MacMini – Apple troped this IGP Crap on all other products – also on Apple-TV – and installed an real GPU (from Nvidia or ATI) with real VRAM. Why should Apple wait with Blu-Ray until Intel support Blu-Ray within the Intel IGP Crap that Apple will never use? 100 % BULLSHIT!
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