Published on 12/11/2006
Dell has entered the Blu-ray fray by including a Blu-ray drive into its line of notebook PCs earlier this week, aiming to keep up with Sony and Toshiba when it comes to the rapidly growing market of mobile High Definition video platforms. The notebook in question is the XPS M1710 and comes with the ability to save up to 50GB of data on a single Blu-ray disc, something notebooks with HD DVD capability cannot do despite being cheaper. Looks like when it comes to mammoth storage space when you're on the go, there really isn't any other way to go other than Blu-ray. IMHO, I've never had the need to burn anything larger than 8.5GB on a dual-layer DVD at any one time, so I guess only power users will be interested in this.