Up until now, users of tray-loading iMacs who want CD burning capabilities have been relegated to slow external USB 1.1-based CD-RW drives. Now Mac peripheral maker MCE Technologies, LLC has announced ...

MCE Technologies LLC on Monday announced an 8x DVD-R internal optical drive upgrade for Apple iBook G3 laptops. The slot-loading drive replaces the internal tray-loading drives found in Apple’s older, ...

Buy a slot one, I always worry that some day I will do something stupid and break the tray off my CD-ROM. But internally, they're the same, so go with your preference.

Most optical discs are a standard 12cm in diameter, are round, and besides some potential manufacturing incompatibilities with certain optical drives, are expected to load and be recognized in most ...

Well, being the good forumer that I am, I did a search for a thread about this first. A hit from a few months ago. I guessed that someone would pounce on my for resurrecting an old thread, so what the ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...