When you are doing work for your business using an iMac, you can load a disk to access files and applications. All iMacs come with an optical drive, which Apple calls a SuperDrive. Unlike drives that ...

If you depend on Apple MacBook for business computing tasks while you're on the road, you probably use the optical drive to perform necessary functions such as burning data backups to disc or for ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

One truism about computer hardware is that, once purchased, it immediately starts falling behind the leading edge of the technology curve. Consider the Dual-2.0GHz Power Mac G5 I purchased in ...

I've been having some issues with the SuperDrive in my 27" iMac (late 2011). I first noticed it around Christmas when I was making backup copies of my daughters' movies (Strawberry Shortcake and ...

More on Magneto Optical Drives Yesterday we reported problems with using Magneto Optical storage devices under Mac OS X 10.2.1 Jaguar. Among the quirks is an unpredictable inability to transfer large ...

A class-action suit filed against four optical drive manufacturers alleging illegal price fixing has been settled, with previous owners of computers equipped with CD or DVD drives between 2003 and ...