you probably noticed a severe lack of laptops with built-in CD/DVD drives. That's all thanks to declining physical media use and a growing desire for thin, lightweight laptops. While Apple's last ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the ...

Insert the Dell Driver & Utilities CD into your computer’s CD/DVD-ROM drive. The disc’s Dell splash screen appears automatically. If the splash screen doesn’t appear, click “Start ...

You can find FFCs in many different places! If you’ve ever disassembled a CD/DVD drive, a laptop, a robot vacuum, or a piece of semi-industrial machinery, they’re there, and of course ...

Lance Evans scours the internet to take on the challenge of creating a custom 3D workstation at a reasonable price.

This solution entails that you try changing the SATA port in which your CD/DVD drive is plugged into. In order to do this, you will need to open your PC/Laptop Case, so it’s highly recommended ...

It’s the Framework laptop, where the USB-C expansion cards take the center stage. Full disclosure – this article is being typed on a Framework laptop, and I got it free from Framework.

I recently purchased a new Toshiba laptop because I was so impressed with the one bought ten years ago. Aside from being way faster than my Satellite this Dynabook didn't offer much else ...

UTM is a cross-platform emulator that allows you to run macOS, Windows, or Linux. Here's how to use it to run very old ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one ... Depending on the specific kind of optical drive - CD, DVD or Blu-ray - the wavelength of the laser will vary ...

A computer has solid state and non-solid state parts. The solid state components are the motherboard, chips, screen, camera and optical mouse, while the hard drive, CD/DVD drive, fans, keyboard ...

"With the election season going full bore," a reader wrote, "the robocalls are non-stop." I use Magic Jack and haven't gotten a single one.