Troubleshooting slot loading optical disk drives If you are having troubles mounting disks, inserting them, reading from them, or have problems with odd noises with slot-loading drives, then read this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a collapsable hardware solution that would allow his company to reduce shipping and packaging costs by selling software on smaller discs which could then be ...

March 19, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Whether you use your laptop's optical drive or not, it's important to keep it clean so it's there for you when ...

Apple wants us to live in a world without optical drive (see the new iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Air and Retina display MacBooks), but for some of us that’s not feasible. If you fall into this category, ...

If you depend on Apple MacBook for business computing tasks while you're on the road, you probably use the optical drive to perform necessary functions such as burning data backups to disc or for ...

MCE Technologies (MCE) is shipping the MCE Fovea Extreme 3, a portable, lightweight, USB 3.0 slot-loading optical drive that allows access to all Blu-ray, DVD, and CD optical disc formats on Macs with ...

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 ...

I'm looking for an optical drive to replace the combo drive on a Powerbook G4 867Mhz (Titanium).<BR><BR>Looking at eBay auctions for replacements, they are often very vague, saying a drive fits _ALL_ ...

With the latest round of super thin iMacs it introduced last year, Apple did away with optical drives in its all-in-one desktop PCs. Good riddance, so far as I'm concerned. In my experience, the ...