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 ...

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 ...

NewerTech has updated their miniStack Max external storage to now include options for Blu-ray/CD/DVD optical drives, offering a wider choice of solutions. The miniStack Max is capable of providing up ...

Despite the default limitation of only being able to use shared DVDs and CDs on Macs that ship without an optical drive, you can enable shared optical drive use on other Macs. Topher, an avid Mac user ...

Not entirely certain this is the appropriate forum, but I'm looking for a good/reasonable quality enclosure to repurpose one of the optical drives (CD/DVD RW) I saved from previous laptops. A quick ...

Introducing a new optical drive may not be top priority these days for tech companies -- particularly with many machines going without one altogether -- but Samsung's looking out for those of us who ...

Plextor Announces New Lineup of Optical Drives with PlexUTILITIES Advanced Application & Diagnostic Software Plextor, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, ...

I don't like it. Not one iota. But frankly, it doesn't much matter -- Apple's officially done with the optical drive, and there's no evidence more strikingly clear than the mid 2011 refresh of its Mac ...

This is now the fourth machine that I’ve run into that the optical drives have mysteriously disappeared. The symptom is that the device manager in both XP and Vista has indicated that the device ...

Apple declares mid-2012 MacBook Pro obsolete globally, ending support for laptops with optical drives. macOS Big Sur no longer supports this model. External SuperDrive available but needs USB-A ...