I’ve had a pretty good relationship with my PowerBook G3/333MHz over the years. Since I got it in 1999 it’s traveled everywhere with me, on road trips, to countless trade shows, even on vacation. I’m ...

Shuttle, along with many other companies generally recognized as motherboard manufacturers, actually has a very diverse product line. They offer everything from CD-ROM drives to Video cards and a wide ...

It’s been a few months since I last devoted a Hassle-Free to reader questions, and I apologize for being remiss. So this week I help Deborah out with a mysterious DVD drive problem and tell Jim how to ...

The differences between a drive for a DVD player and a DVD-ROM drive are huge. Simply because it can run in two modes at once or switch between the two very quickly due to a huge processing ability ...

Apple has released Apple DVD Player 2.7 for its DVD-ROM drives. Here is what the Read Me has to say about compatibility: Apple DVD Player is a software-only DVD player. It is not compatible with the ...

DVD-ROM drives have been available for PCs for a few years now, and they hardly do anything besides play movies. I know MS Encarta is available on DVD, but again, there is hardly anything available on ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...

I'm sick and tired of loudy, whiny optical drives! I need something quieter than the Sony 16x (rebadge Lite-On, I believe) that I have in my system now. On short bursts, it whines terribly.<BR><BR>I ...