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Panasonic will announce the industry’s first slim-line Blu-ray DVD writer at CES on January 6. The 9.5 mm drive fits into the same space used by current DVD burners. Panasonic supplies most of Apple’s notebook DVD burners. Given the availability of the new drive I expect to see Apple announce it for the MacBook Pro family very soon - possibly at Macworld the following week. While it writes Blu-ray at only 2x, the new drive will be the only way to get HD video out of an mobile Mac without a cable. Part of a major Pro update? The MacBook Pros haven’t had a significant update in over 6 months. In the meantime Intel has been sampling the Penryn processors…