If you used or owned a laptop in the 2000s, you'd probably remember that it sported either a DVD or Blu-Ray drive for popping in installation discs, movies, and even the occasional album from your ...

Toshiba on Tuesday will join competitor Sony in shipping high-end notebooks with drives capable of burning DVDs. The move comes as PC makers look to revive sluggish sales and to repeat the ...

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 ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...

Music, movies, and books have gone from physical objects to digital files over the past 10 years, and computer designs have changed with the times. A lot of computers — laptops, all-in-ones, and ...