Sony Optiarc revealed a new dual USB bus powered slim portable DVD/CD rewriteable drive designed for use with notebooks, netbooks, and desktop PCs. The new DRX-S90U drive features a lightweight design ...

Samsung has announced a new portable DVD writer designed for users of ultraportable and notebook computers that don't have internal DVD drives. The new Samsung portable DVD writer is called the ...

Portable products typically must balance a set of contrary design goals: they can either offer fast performance or be physically light, but not both. LaCie’s Portable DVD±RW with LightScribe, Design ...

Addonics has added new portable optical drives to its line that feature a built-in eSATA and USB interface. The new Pocket Blu-ray/DVDRW and the Pocket DVD-RRW drive provide throughput up to ...

The Lite-On eNAU708 is a competent portable DVD drive, with a price that will make it a good peripheral choice for ultrabook owners. With ultrabooks favoring portability over the inclusion of optical ...

Hey all, the PC I bought this year has no provision for an optical drive. If I wanted to install, say, Freelancer (of which I have the disc) that cannot simply be bought from GOG or any digital ...

Even the lowest-end notebooks on the market these days sport DVD-ROM drives, so why shouldn't you just plump for a notebook to meet your portable DVD watching needs? Alex Kidman is a freelance word ...

UK, 27 April 2011 - Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development, and manufacturing of storage and wireless networking solutions, is today announcing a stylish and convenient design ...

Apple was one of the first manufacturers to exclude DVD players from its laptops, and the same quickly became true for iMacs as well. This meant that if you wanted to rip CDs for your iTunes library, ...

The built-in DVD burner is getting pretty hard to find in a laptop. The oh-so-portable ultrabook category skips the optical drive to maintain super-thin profiles and to shave a few ounces off of the ...