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No internal CD drive so he uses an Altec Lansing AMC2000 external drive that sits below the laptop and connects via the PCMCIA slot.<P>Now when you input ANY type of CD the instant the laser tries to ...

Physical media is old school, but there are times where it may make sense for some PC owners. Let's take a look at compact discs (CDs), digital versatile discs (DVDs), and Blu-rays to see which option ...

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Recently I became the mostly happy owner of an HP Pavilion dm1z. I say “mostly happy” because I wasn’t thrilled with its performance. To give the system a boost, I decided to swap the pokey 5,200-rpm ...

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 saving, ...

When Danny had a new hard drive installed in his desktop PC, the technician left the old drive in as well. Danny asked me what he can do with the extra drive. Hard drives and SSDs fall easily into the ...

Reader Ned Mitchell find his MacBook’s media drive is a little picky about the discs he inserts. He writes: My MacBook’s internal CD/DVD drive reads DVDs just fine. However, it’s less tolerant of CDs.