If you have an external optical drive in OS X, the built-in Eject key on the keyboard may not work with it, so here are some options for handling external discs on your Mac. Topher, an avid Mac user ...

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More specifics would be very helpful for us to make suggestions.<BR>(1) What kind of optical drive? Does it need to be able to read and write DVDs? Blu-ray?<BR>(2) What's the use cases for the drive?

The humble optical disc drive is back in demand, or so it would seem. As strange as it may seem, though, there are some solid ...

A bunch of new netbooks launched at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, but you'll still have to select an ultraportable (or larger) if you want a machine with an integrated optical ...

Mac maker Apple Inc., which later this month will unveil its first sub-notebook design in over a decade, is likely to offer an external optical drive as an optional accessory, according to a new ...

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

I have need of an external drive that can read cd and dvds for school (burned cd/dvd with radiographic images on it that I have do image analysis for). Some hospitals have not joined the 21st century ...

Slim is definitely in, just ask Samsung, who has gone and introduced one of the skinniest external optical drives you're ever likely to see before the technology is supplanted by whatever storage ...