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

Readers in the market for one of Apple's MacBook Pro models with a built-in CD/DVD drive can save up to $270 this weekend from one of the company's authorized resellers, who has similarly discounted ...

I've been a Plextor fan forever, and I've got an old rig I use just for burning where the drive I use for extracting (an UltraPlex 40X SCSI CD-ROM) seems to have finally died.<BR><BR>(I've updated the ...

When I wrote a series of How-To guides showing how easy it was to swap old Mac hard disks for new solid state drives (SSDs), I focused on raw upgrades — slow mechanical drives for fast chip-based ones ...

Is it time to say goodbye to CD/DVD drives in computers? As our Internet connections get faster, USB drives get roomier and everything goes streaming — hello Netflix, goodbye discs — it seems the end ...

The latest version of macOS Ventura breaks compatibility with Pioneer's lineup of USB-connected CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives for the Mac. The root cause of the issue is unclear at this time, but Pioneer has ...