If your laptop shopping list includes a touch screen, SSD storage, or even NFC, finding a new system shouldn't be hard. But if you're still tied to your optical discs and need a DVD or Blu-ray drive, ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Listen up, laptop manufacturers: Optical drives are an ...

One of the most interesting parts of the recent Apple Mac Mini and MacBook Air refresh is that Apple is moving away from optical drives. Apple isn't the only company to do so, raising the question "Is ...

In a time when CDs and DVDs are becoming obsolete, the external optical drives are the perfect solution for those with a large collection of CDs and DVD but a new laptop that doesn't have a DVD drive.

While pen drives, external SSD storage devices and SD cards have now taken over the world of portable memory storage devices, CDs still have a say in this regard. Therefore, you should get a laptop ...

If you used or owned a laptop in the 2000s, you'd probably remember that it sported either a DVD or Blu-Ray drive for popping in installation discs, movies, and even the occasional album from your ...

Optical drives, that can read and write CDs, DVDs, and sometimes Blu-ray discs, have been an important part of the PC universe for a long time. But there’s less and less need for them. I haven’t ...

For the sake of design, Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air and Intel's next line of Ultrabook laptops will not feature a disc drive for playing physical CDs and DVDs. Reuters/Norbert von der Groebe Optical ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Listen up, laptop manufacturers: Optical drives are an ...