Upgrade your Gateway FX P-Series Laptop with a ?Blu-Ray Drive?

Found this Guide on Blu-ray drives on your Gateway FX

Upgrade your Gateway FX P-Series Laptop with a “Blu-Ray Drive”

 

Careful with this one. There was already someone who had found an awesome deal on this exact drive he used. BC-5500A. Only issue is it's a PATA IDE drive and not SATA like the 7811, 7801, 7805 use. Atleast that's the word going around.

Can someone verify that the P-78xx use a SATA optical drive?

 

the p-7805u definitely uses SATA for the drive...I just found this drive on Newegg.com...it is the SATA version...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118027&Tpk=12.7mm blu-ray

 

This BC-5600S drive is slot-loading (would need some kind bezel mod to fit p-7805u.. The one that would allow you to reuse the stick bezel should be BC-5500S. Currently Newegg is OOS on BC5500S
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118010

 

Or just use the normal BC-5600S without a bezel, i don't think it'll look that ugly.

 

With only 1440x900 res its a wast of money to get a blu-ray!

 

ur right it would be stupid *glances down*

 

No its not, regular DVD's are 480p (480 vertical lines) blu-ray supports up to 1080p (1080 vertical lines) therefore there will still be a significant clarity improvement. Also it is a cheaper alternative to a full on blu-ray player, with the HDMI port on the FX series you can easily output to a TV.

 

that too

 

BAH...just get a PS3. i did.

 

Agreed, I have one at home but am thinking about getting a Blu-Ray drive so I can have it in my dorm

 

I have a PS3 in the living room and a Panasonic BD55 Blu-ray Player in my bedroom but I too would like a unit that will allow my to watch movies wherever I want. But at $330, it's more than the price of some stand alone players. So I will wait till prices fall a little before taking the plunge. Perhaps by that time I can add a Blu-ray player/burner for about $300. Now that would make me happy

 

Blu-ray drive for P-6831-P-171 S -X -XL series editions

Found one on Ebay $225.00

I ask the seller if he had the SATA drives for the P-7811
He told me in another 2 weeks will have them in Stock..

 

Theres a bunch of them on ebay for $100

 

theres ide ones on ebay for around 90-100. there decent ones.

 

Average $100.00 for only one Model

Panasonic UJ-120


Others go for $150.00-$400.00

Blu-ray for Gateway FX


Panasonic UJ 225



There is only one listing for a Gateway FX I guess his like us showing people that upgrading not so hard

Not alot of people like messing around with there laptops when it comes to taking it apart

 

yeah i was thinking of the uj-120 works well from what i heard.

 

Blu-ray Drives PATA and SATA interface

Panasonic Matshita UJ-120 Tray loading Blu-ray Disc drive


Panasonic/Matshita UJ-220 2X Blu-ray DVD-RW(DL) Drive, 12.7mm Slim Drive


Panasonic/Matshita UJ-210 Blu-ray DVD-RW(DL) Drive, 12.7mm Slim Drive


Panasonic/Matshita UJ-225 slot in 2X Blu-ray DVD-RW(DL) Drive, 12.7mm Slim Drive

Sony Optric BC-5500A 2x Blu Ray Writer / IDE Slimline Bare Drive, 12.7mm Slim Drive


*RARE* Sony Optric BC-5600S 2x Blue Ray Writer / SATA Slimline Bare Drive, 12.7mm Slim Drive

LG GBW-T10N 4x Blu Ray Writer / SATA Slimline Bare Drive, 12.7mm Slim Drive

 

Holy Cheap Blu-ray Deal, Batman! Has anyone bought one of these beauties yet? This is too tempting.

EDIT: Ooops...I didn't read the PATA interface part. So I guess I will just have to wait for the SATA ones to come down in price.