Subj : Re: Running linux in vm o
To   : Derision
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Oct 23 2018 10:11 am

  Re: Re: Running linux in vm o
  By: Derision to Nightfox on Mon Oct 22 2018 09:24 pm

 De> The ability to burn to a blu-ray disc is built-in to macOS. There are
 De> external USB burners that work fine out of the box for burning to and
 De> reading burned blu-ray discs. Playing a movie on a blu-ray is another
 De> story. There ARE a few pieces of software... Macgo Blu-ray Player and some
 De> other bits, that'll do it, but it usually isn't cheap, and kind of not
 De> worth it when you can just download a digital file of the same quality.

Interesting that Mac OS has the ability to burn to blu-ray built in when Macs
never included a blu-ray drive (even a reader) as standard.  The OS wouldn't
necessarily have to have the burning feature built-in, since there can also be
software just for burning to optical discs.  Windows has been able to burn to
optical discs for a long time, but I'm still used to using software such as
Nero to burn optical discs.

 De> I guess that might be the argument AGAINST having such an expandable
 De> system, in that lots of users would rather beef it up and expand it rather
 De> than buy next years' system the minute it comes out, thus depriving Apple
 De> of their desired profit.

I dunno..  I can see how Apple would want to sell a whole system, but I think
upgradability is also a desired feature.  If their computer isn't upgradable,
I'd be more likely to buy another company's computer instead.  So upgradability
can be a selling point.  Sometimes you might find you need more RAM or hard
drive space, or might want to put in a more powerful graphics card, and it can
be useful to be able to do that.  Speaking of that, I'm not sure what graphics
cards are available for Mac these days, or if you can even replace them..

Nightfox

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