If you bought a computer with a DVD drive (or a standalone DVD drive for a computer, including external ones) between April 1, 2003 and December 31, 2008, you're eligible to receive $10 for each ...

It’s the appendix of the modern computer ... On all PCs, optical drives add cost. A basic optical drive for a desktop is cheap enough, maybe $20 in bulk, but you know that cost ...

Second computer's optical drive. If you do not have a spare hard drive or optical drive, try inserting the DVD into a second Mac and connecting it to the broken computer with a firewire cable.

If you just need a simple drive to install a program from a CD-ROM, you can buy an external CD/DVD drive for around $20 from Amazon. Any external optical drive you buy will plug into a USB port on ...

Until broadband reaches them, physical discs and optical drives will still be an important factor for computer owners. Mushell emphasizes that optical drives aren't dead, yet.

However, if you happen to have another computer with a suitable drive on the network, such as an older MacBook or a Windows PC, you can take advantage of its optical drive on a Mac without the ...

So despite the digital age we live in, external optical drives should still have a firm place in our technology landscape. They are readily available and can be purchased for less than $20 on Amazon .

The optical drive is dying. And fast. Going forward, I suspect the majority of my computing will be done on the following devices: iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air (and perhaps a ChromeBook, or whatever ...

With decent do-everything DVD burners going for less than 20 bucks and Blu-ray crossing the $100 threshold, optical discs are obviously going to live on for a while, but the truth is they are not ...

How to Troubleshoot the Optical Drive on a MacBook. ... Jeff Grundy has been writing computer-related articles and tutorials since 1995. Since that time, ...

Slates and tablets, the hottest form factors, are already optical drive free, and with ultrathin and mobile the trend in laptops, most purchasers there are opting to ditch the optical drive. The trend ...