Dell Adds Blu-ray Drive To XPS M1710 Notebook
- December 11th, 2006
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Dell’s been firmly in the Blu-ray camp since day one (though I’m never going to stop asking their reps about when they’ll be adding HD DVD) and is finally making moves to show its support for the format by adding a mobile optical drive to its XPS M1710 gaming/multimedia notebook line. And it’s not just a player. The drive has full read/write abilities for CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs.
If you’ve never seen full HD content on a 17-inch screen, let me tell you, it’s pretty amazing viewable. Seriously though, if you’re dropping nearly $4,000 (the base config with the drive is $3,699) you might as well get the best, most versatile drive you can. Even if it’s just for the 50GB of storage you can jam on a double-layer disc. Besides, you can always use the DVI out to connect to a larger screen.
Dell XPS M1710 [product site]
webonics (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I guess that I’m a little confused about this Blu-Ray integration. Windows Vista is supposedly not supporting Blu-Ray and only HD-DVD. So does Dell install a third-party software on the PC to support the Blu-Ray drive and burner??
Much appreciation to anyone that can enlighten me on the subject.
Josh Goldman (Who am I?)
1 year ago
That’s a good question, and I’ll ping Dell with it, but more than likely they’ll be using Cyberlink software to handle the support.