Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead the ...

iTunes 1.1 comes with some important warnings in its Read Me file, for those using USB or FireWire CD-RW drives. In particular: You may not be able to use third-party ...

Apple hasn’t sold a MacBook with an actual CD/Drive drive in almost eight years. The last one was the 13-inch MacBook Pro that was released in mid-2012, which Apple sold until late 2016. Ever since, ...

The Department of Homeland Security recently planted several USB drives and CD-ROMs in a government facility parking lot to see how easy it would be to spread viruses, and 60% of workers plugged the ...