Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

In these modern times, CDs have become somewhat ancient technology. Because of the decline in CD popularity, laptops do not even come with CD drives. On the rare occasion that you need a CD drive, you ...

Apple was one of the first manufacturers to exclude DVD players from its laptops, and the same quickly became true for iMacs as well. This meant that if you wanted to rip CDs for your iTunes library, ...

Ready for an unconventional upgrade? How about this: You can turn an old, pokey external hard drive into a blazingly fast one with about 10 minutes of your time and $15 of your money. See, most modern ...

Lacie's just announced its next generation USB 3.0 drives meant to take advantage of the new Ivy Bridge internals of the latest MacBooks. The fresh Rugged Triple, Porsche Design P'9223 and P'9233, and ...

Just ordered a Mac mini and want to get an external Blu-Ray/SuperDrive so I can watch/rip Blu-Ray movies (with the appropriate 3rd-party software). I came across this on a Macrumors.com forum post: ...