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.

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.

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 ...

Mac desktop and MacBook owners are used to living without a CD or DVD drive, but there are occasions where access to one could be handy. AppleInsider explains how to remotely access the CD or DVD ...

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 ...

Hard drives and optical drives are the most failure-prone items on a laptop. They're also among the easiest to swap out, upgrade, or, in some cases, live without. Here are the best fixes for ...

Solid-state drives are the future, so why are many laptops still shipping with slower hard-disk drives? Let's take a look and, along the way, explain the big difference between drives ...

Whether you use your laptop's optical drive or not, it's important to keep it clean so it's there for you when you need it.Here's an easy way to clean slot-loading CD and DVD drives (like the kind ...

Hard drive reader heads on laptops are set to dock themselves away from the disk platter whenever they detect turbulence, but it doesn't always work fast enough to prevent a crash.