A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

ok, I got a Sony VAIO SR laptop(the kind without a floppy or CD drive built in) <P>I'm a pretty big fan of roller coaster tycoon, star craft and UT. Unfortunately all of them ask for the install CD ...

A 3-pound laptop that sells for $1,000 (after a rebate) and packs 128 megabytes of memory and a nearly 10-gigabyte hard drive ought to approach the Holy Grail of portable computing. What's not to like ...

I have been given an external CD-ROM drive.<P>The back of the cd-rom has two ports. One is the standard audio Left and audio Right plugs.<P>The interface plug/port for this CD-ROM looks *exactly* like ...

Forums Today: iMac CD-ROM drive quality A thread in the MacFixIt Forums suggests that 333MHz iMacs may have a quality-control problem with the CD-ROM drive. NUpowr G3 upgrade for PB 1400 and problem ...

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) ...