Just what it says... I'm considering replacing the optical drive in my MacBook Pro with a 2nd hard drive, but want to get some sort of external enclosure for the optical for the occasional time I'd ...

I have a Dell Studio laptop that fried - it is totally dead. I'm sending it back to Dell, but there is a disk in there that I need to remove first. The Dell tech support guy told me that there is no ...

Apple has updated a couple of knowledgebase articles that may be useful for people trying to troubleshoot either iPhone hardware or slot-loading CD drives that are available in a variety of Mac models ...

If you think it would be a good idea to print your business card on a specially cut, rectangular mini-CD, think again. Your contacts might never forget the headache of having the disc jam inside a ...

File this one under: “Wow, that’s even possible?” xbox-scene hacker [RDC] has been hard at work converting his Xbox 360 to slot loading. To start, He removed the slot loading drive from a blueberry ...

This Xbox 360 mod may be a little less dramatic than some we've seen, but we think that anyone who's had their nerves rattled by the incessant banging of their console's optical drive tray will really ...

File this one under: “Wow, that’s even possible?” xbox-scene hacker [RDC] has been hard at work converting his Xbox 360 to slot loading. To start, He removed the slot loading drive from a blueberry ...

MCE Technologies is now offering an internal 24x slot-loading CD-R/RW drive for replacing the tray-loading CD-ROM drive in the original iMac (233, 266, and 333MHz, Rev. A-D). Each iMac 24x CD-R/RW ...

Failure to eject from slot-loading drive This item has been moved to "The new iMacs" MacFixIt Report. Excel chart Type 2 error Although I suspect this is an "old" bug ...

Yeah, an optical drive. You know, for folks who still appreciate the passing fads of life. Bitterness aside, Commodore is following up its retro-fabulous C64x with a new small-form-factor PC, the ...

Even though CD-R discs are compatible with MacBook Pro and can be used to upload data such as music, the notebook will have a hard time reading and writing it if the disc is dirty and damaged, or if ...