FastMac has released the first Blu-ray drive for Macs, a slot-loading 1x speed slimline drive that can also read and write most other optical disc formats including DVD±RW and CD.
The drive is bootable, OS X native, and plug and play, and works with many Macs even as far back as the Powerbook G3 and iBook G4.
It will write dual-layer discs, giving up to 50GB of storage, and can be bundled with Toast 8 Titanium disc authoring/burning software.
Though it claims to be usable for playing back Blu-ray content, there's no mention of its copy protection credentials (though as it sports the Blu-ray logo presumably it's up to standard). I'd also question whether a single G3 or G4 processor would come close to being able to play high definition content.
It retails for US$799.95.
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