I think Blu Ray will be a commercial success but whether it will really pay back Sony for the price they paid to promote it is something I’m less sure about. There doesn’t seem to be any great public excitement for it.
I had to go shopping for a new notebook, and while I loved my 17” and was tempted by the 18.4”s, I find too often that I just don’t have the room when working on site. I picked up a little jewell of a Dell XPS 1530 for it’s great screen, keyboard and nice horsepower under the hood (64 bit rocks !). Mainly I liked seeing a solid 5.0 experience number in a sea of 3.3’s. And the 8600 GT graphic card is topped out at 5.9 because it can supplement the 256MB of onboard RAM with up to 1.7GB from the 4GB of system ram. There ain't much that this graphic system will find challenging.
The point of this being that I actually had the thing four days before I even noticed that it has a Blu Ray optical disk. I’m glad and I probably will sooner or later get the HDMI cable to use it occasionally to watch a Blu Ray movie on the big plasma. But the point being that the Blu Ray drive was so little ballyhooed that I didn’t even realize I was buying one and it played no part in my choice. Like I said, it just wasn’t that big of a deal; to Dell or to me.
