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

It has two headphone jacks, rips CDs in real time, and supports hi-fi wireless audio.

Slanling EC Zero AKM Portable CD player includes a 10-hour battery, a new clamp for smooth playback, CD-ripping and a built-in DAC ...

The best laptops with CD and DVD drives are rapidly encroaching on extinction. Trust me. During my tenure as a laptop reviewer, I haven't seen a single laptop with one! Now that everything can be ...

My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

Retrospect and TEAC drives: a follow-up We have previously noted that Retrospect does not work with TEAC-based QPS CD-RW drives. Henry Cline received a detailed reminder of this from Dantz: "Check to ...

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 ...

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...