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Dell to offer Blu-ray on XPS notebooks

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On December 11, 2006, 4:38 PM EST

As of today Dell will begin offering notebooks coupled with next gen optical drives. In their XPS line, Dell's M1710 will be offered stock with Blu-ray drives, though none are planned yet with HD-DVD support. Of course, as a Blu-ray backer, they have no incentive yet to offer it, though consumer demand in the future may change that. The new drive is a burner as well:

The Blu-ray feature seems to be the central point of the XPS M1710 announcement. The M1710 supports read/write capabilities across CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc media. Using Blu-ray Disc technology, M1710 users can burn up to 50 GB of data or author up to 50 GB of theater-quality video on a single piece of media.
It won't be anywhere near cheap, though, with costs well over $3500 initially. Likely the high cost of the Blu-ray lasers has a lot do with this.

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zephead
on December 15, 2006
12:21 AM 		that's so expensive...i wouldn't think that a blu-ray burner could justify $3500+ on a laptop

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