I blame the Retina MacBook Pro. Apple sent a unit for me to review for my Seattle Times column, and I was impressed (see “Retina MacBook Pro: a treat for the eyes, maybe not for the wallet”). Yes, 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_ ...

Peripheral maker MCE Technologies LLC announced Tuesday that they’re shipping their internal 2x DVD-RW + DVD-RAM drive upgrade for PowerBook G4s. The company is actually shipping the product about two ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts with laptops equipped with unused optical drives may be interested in a new modification which allows you to install your very own mini PC directly into the slot. Created by ...

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 ...

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 ...

In case you haven't noticed, very few netbooks have ever shipped with an optical drive. You've either had to get a more expensive ultraportable, a thin-and-light or an external ODD in order to have ...