Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

An affordable docking station for your netbook with an optical drive, optional hard drive, and powered USB ports. The packaging for the Apricorn Aegis NetDock docking station ($89, as of 7/6/2010) ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

Forward-looking: Despite consumer PCs and game consoles transitioning to faster SSDs, traditional disk drives (HDDs) continue to offer ever more space for cold storage at lower prices. One company ...

Apple’s Mac Pro is the first pro desktop system since the Power Mac G4 to feature a second optical drive bay. If you don’t need a second optical drive but having additional hard disk space sounds ...

I'm looking for an optical drive to replace the combo drive on a Powerbook G4 867Mhz (Titanium).<BR><BR>Looking at eBay auctions for replacements, they are often very vague, saying a drive fits _ALL_ ...

What size motherboard? Is a slim optical drive ok or is it a standard 5.25" size optical drive? Fractal Design and Silverstone would be the usual suspects to search, maybe Antec as well. Did you ...