MCE Technologies LLC on Monday announced an 8x DVD-R internal optical drive upgrade for Apple iBook G3 laptops. The slot-loading drive replaces the internal tray-loading drives found in Apple’s older, ...

Most optical discs are a standard 12cm in diameter, are round, and besides some potential manufacturing incompatibilities with certain optical drives, are expected to load and be recognized in most ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

Well, being the good forumer that I am, I did a search for a thread about this first. A hit from a few months ago. I guessed that someone would pounce on my for resurrecting an old thread, so what the ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

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 ...

The FIC Condor is a great small-formfactor case, no doubt about it. Only problem is that I've killed several optical drives by installing and trying to operate them in the vertical slot that is the ...

The Plextor External Blu-ray PX-LB950UE's speedy performance and support for several rewritable formats make it a smart for a portable optical drive, despite a few irritating faults. We've spent a lot ...