We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features.

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

search. It's been posted so many times already.<BR><BR>Put the 2 hard drives on channel 0, and the 2 optical drives on channel 1. <BR>You'll get better performance that way if you're writing something ...

Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who ...

This weekend, after an abortive CPU upgrade (swapped in a new CPU, didn't pass smoke test, so swapped back in my old CPU) my CD drives (Drives F and G) aren't showing up as CD drives in My ...

Q: I'm thinking about getting a CD-RW drive for my personal computer so that I can store family photos digitally (and so my daughter can make audio CDs using MP3 files). The problem is that I have no ...

The very last Apple MacBook Pro to feature a CD/DVD drive inside has now officially been added to the company's list of obsolete products worldwide, according to the company's website. The change was ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The linear actuator that moves ...