Hello, I am planning to buy a IMac and have been waiting until they come with Blu-ray and HDMI. For the last 6 months now. Currently, most computer now come with Blu-ray and HDMI for a few years now (DELL, HP, to say the least) as standard. I am wondering why Mac has not added this as standard. Especially as its been around for a long time. My biggest worry is that I will buy an expensive Mac, and then soon afterwards, they will come included as standard. I don't want to pay extra money to upgrade. Many thanks for your option on this, Steve

Here is your answer: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/04/09/seco... Steve Jobs hates BluRay. -Ryan Adams Free Computer Tips and more:http://RyanTAdams.com Paid Tech Support: Black Diamond

Most computers don't have BD/HDMI, they have DVD DL/DVI. It will show up on the MacBook Pro 17 or Mac Pro as a BD-R/BD-RE Drive before it shows up on an iMac or MacBook, as a BD-ROM drive. Macs have DisplayPort with you can purchase a dongle to plug into you HDTV (DP doesn't support sound) and you have to plug in the mini-jack out for sound. Movies on Blu-Ray >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DVD. Picture quality, sound an features are quite awesome. I've had a BD player since 2006 (Launch 60GB PS3) and I have no doubt that this tech will show up in Macs sooner rather than later. You'll never have the top-of-the-line anything with technology if you did you wouldn't be asking for advice on what/when to buy, you'd just buy whatever/whenever.