This would make a great Kubuntu 25.10 system.
16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches
Submitted 22 hours ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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flemtone@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Australis13@fedia.io 21 hours ago
Interesting to see that demand for optical drives is increasing, although apparently it's only in Japan: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/optical-drive-demand-surges-amid-windows-10-retirement-japanese-users-switching-to-windows-11-are-buying-up-blu-ray-drives
Still, hopefully that means Bluray writers stay on the market for a bit longer.
radieschen@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
What’s the use case? I haven’t had an optical drive for all least 10 years and can’t say that I’ve missed it. Not even once, I think.
Armand1@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Backing up Blu-rays and watching them on your device.
Unlike with music, you can’t buy DRM-free Blu-ray quality movies outside of Blu-ray. If you stream a show or movie, even if you have “bought”, you don’t own it.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Retro gaming and media rips.
You can literally pop a ps2 game and just play with pcsx2, don’t even have to rip it. Given the recent pushes towards “you’ll own nothing and fuck you if you don’t like it” it isn’t surprising to me that a company is offering a path back to media ownership.
Based on the specs for the machine, that’s the goal as well. I wouldn’t consider a 16 GB kit sufficient for much else than a media/web machine anymore, and that’s the default on the advertised rig
Australis13@fedia.io 20 hours ago
I have several use cases, a big one being that it gives me an alternate storage medium for backing up home photos and videos. Obviously there's caveats on how long BD-Rs last (although M-discs should outlast me) and the issue of needing a player in future, but it gives me more peace of mind knowing that I can backup these sorts of things to different storage types (external hard drives are all well and good until they're corrupted by power issues or user error, or you want to keep a copy at a relative's place and it's a multi-hour trip... with optical media you can just keep adding discs to the offsite backup as needed and update the external HDD less frequently).
The other major use case I have has already been mentioned - backing up Blurays that I've bought (or, in the case of a few shows I like, being able to compare the DVD vs Bluray frame by frame).
artyom@piefed.social 21 hours ago
I have one but it is external and I use it to rip BluRays. Shh don’t tell anyone.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
I use M-DISC (not all blu-rays are M-DISC) for backing up important documents.
Armand1@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I have a PC USB Blu-ray drive, and bought a backup one last year just in case this one dies.
alehel@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
There are rumors that the last two makers of consumer computer blu-ray drives have ceased production. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the actual reason sales have surged in Japan, as physical media is still quite popular there.
Australis13@fedia.io 7 hours ago
That's quite possible, unfortunately...
Valmond@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Blue-ray drive? Wild.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Does it run Linux?
metallic_substance@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Why wouldn’t it?
2910000@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
unsupported hardware, firmware bugs
Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sometimes they use the oddest hardware in such a machine for which only windows drivers exist, at least for the moment. Hardware shops manage to fuck this up especially with wifi cards.
goatinspace@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I had the same question
just_another_person@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Smart. Kids are really hyping physical media again, akin to when 89’s kids brought vinyl back in the 2000’s.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
Intel core i3? …
fin@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Do you use Blu-rays tho?
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
DVDs are stuck at a low-quality 480p resolution versus 1080p or 2160p, so Blu-Rays are indisputably better.
fin@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
480p
That sucks. Maybe I wasn’t caring much because I was watching those videos ripped and imported to VLC through iPad (in 2013).
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 20 hours ago
4K Blu-rays look stunning on a good OLED TV. I tend to pick up movies I really loved the visuals of in 4K Blu-ray (Interstellar as an example).
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Doesn’t need to be OLED. Just a half decent 4k tv.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Try watching a regular DVD on a modern OLED TV and I think you’ll understand.
tal@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
I guess it’s a little more compact, but I’d think that an external USB drive would be a much better option, not compete for space in the laptop.
considers
Though there was a point in the past when laptop vendors would design the laptop to support a secondary battery in the optical drive bay if you didn’t want an internal optical drive, and that would be something I’d like.
Damage@feddit.it 12 hours ago
I think I rembember modding my Macbook Pro to remove the optical drive and add a second SSD, an eternity ago.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
I want it.