Panasonic’s latest burner for laptops goes down with thickens to the amazing 9.5 mm. The drive can read and write Blu-ray discs at 2x, and supports DVD and CD read/write functions of course. Toshiba developing team claims that HD DVD burners can be slimmed down to 7 mm which will make them the best Blu-ray drives in this category, but so far only DVD has gone that slim. Expect official debut of this Panasonic new drive next month at CES.