optical drive

If you purchase a DVD or Blu-ray internal optical drive for your desktop, chances are it comes bundled with PowerDVD from Cyberlink .

You should give Linux a try. If you are currently using MS Windows, you should download the .iso image, burn it to a CD, stick it in your optical drive and reboot the computer.

Remedy your netbook's lack of optical drive, cramped keyboard, and tiny hard drive with a couple of these handy accessories.

PC Mech: "Sick of burning CDs of Linux distributions every time you want to try out a new one? Don’t worry, you can reuse your USB stick as many times as you like and burn bootable ISOs to it.

Is there an easy way to do this? Yes."

"It's actually pretty easy. But before I tell you how there's a small list of things you need to do first: "1.

You need a USB stick that you don't mind erasing all the data off of so you can put a distro of ...

Sick of burning CDs of Linux distributions every time you want to try out a new one? Don’t worry, you can reuse your USB stick as many times as you like and burn bootable ISOs to it.

Is there an easy way to do this? Yes.

Acer's Aspire One netbook laptop comes without an optical drive. It does comes with a DVD, though, that lets you either install Linpus Linux OS to the netbook by connecting an external USB optical drive to it, ...

The Eee Box is an Intel Atom processor-powered "net-top" PC. Think of it as a very small desktop PC that's somewhere between a mini PC with an optical drive and a NetPC/thin client system that has no hard drive ...

On my 15" MacBook Pro (2.4GHz Penryn, February 2008), I've found I can boot into the hardware test mode without having the hardware test disc in the machine.

If I press F2 before the startup bell, the machine directly enters hardware test mode. I don't know if this works with MacBooks or iMacs, however.

Ryan Orser writes about how Ubuntu Hardy Heron solved most of his computer problems since the beta has come out.

The laptop used to be a wreck whenever he had to plug in a usb drive or put a cd in the computers optical drive.