This coincided with the phasing out of optical/hard disk drives not only for laptops but even some PCs now. If you have no way to use physical methods, then you’re forced to use digital ones.

Laptops with a DVD drive aren't common, but they do exist, and some perform well, for a decent price. Consumer Reports picks models from Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

Laptop drives are typically 2.5 inches in size and can range from 160 GB to more than 2 TB in capacity. Most systems will have between 500 GB and 1 TB of storage, ... CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Drives.

The last Apple laptop with a CD and DVD drive, also known as the mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro, is now officially obsolete. That doesn't mean the device won't work. It just means that Apple won't ...

Computer disk drives keep getting larger and faster while prices continue to fall. Most Windows XP desktop computers came with a 100 or 200 megabyte drive.