Apple has updated a couple of knowledgebase articles that may be useful for people trying to troubleshoot either iPhone hardware or slot-loading CD drives that are available in a variety of Mac models ...

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 ...

Apple has updated a few knowledgebase documents covering a few issues people may have with MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

FastMac on Tuesday announced a G4 processor upgrade for CRT-based Apple iMacs equipped with slot-loading optical drives. The US$199.95 upgrade replaced the iMac’s existing CPU with a Motorola 7410 CPU ...

Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack.

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 ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one, or even two. Now this storage solution is quickly becoming obsolete — it's increasingly rare to find a mainstream ...