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Has anybody tried blu-ray playback on a T60p with a USB drive? I'm wondering if the FireGL graphics chipset is sufficient (Cyberlink's BD Advisor comes up empty).

I have the internal Blu-ray drive on my R60. I have to run XP because for some reason there's glitches during playback running either Vista or Windows 7. It mostly works fine, but CPU usage can get quite high depending on the disc., therefore battery life isn't great during playback. Sony Blu-ray movies like Spiderman 3 for example, run the CPU between 85 and 95%, while others like the Terminator, which I think is MGM, run at less than 20% of CPU capacity. In theory the X1600 and X1700, which the V5200 and V5250 are based on, support decoding h264, which would take some of the load off the CPU, but I'm not sure how if they work the same because they obviously use different drivers. My own X1300 offers no help decoding H264. You might want to look at getting AnyDVD HD as you may have playback issues otherwise. I think their trial is for free for the first few weeks, but it's kind of overpriced if you ask me.