So I'm considering my options for getting a quiet case with at least one optical drive slot. I'm considering exchanging the Nano S with a Fractal Design Core 500. Any other suggestions?

If your laptop shopping list includes a touch screen, SSD storage, or even NFC, finding a new system shouldn't be hard. But if you're still tied to your optical discs and need a DVD or Blu-ray ...

Most optical discs are a standard 12cm in diameter ... the odd shapes will get them stuck in many slot-loading drives seen in MacBooks, MacBook Pros, Mac Minis, and iMac systems.

then place the enclosure into the MacBook Pro’s optical drive slot and replace the optical drive’s three screws. Photo: Chris Barylick Once the enclosure is in place, swap the hard drive ...

Now here’s something I could use. My computer’s front looks good, but it only has the optical drive bay at the top and two ports at the bottom — why not make it pretty and functional?

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console ... Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, drives hit the market that required ...

But they've also meant that people who still needed those technologies also needed to deal with dongles, adapters, or clunky external accessories ... a metal, slot-loading optical drive from ...

Like all Apple’s optical drives since the 1990s iMac, it a slot-loading design, which means there’s no fiddly tray to attach the disc to before sliding a wobbly mechanism closed. Inserting a ...

5. Inserting a thin piece of cardboard into the optical slot as the disc is spinning can force it to stop and may then trigger the drive to eject the disc. 6. The "try anything" school of thought ...

Q: My Macintosh MacBook has a slot-loading optical drive. About a month ago, I got a DVD stuck inside. The eject button isn't working. Is there a manual way to pop out the disc? A: There is no ...

The recommended enduser prices for these slim optical drives are: TOB02 - Slim Blu-ray & DVD/CD combo = 143,50 EUR (without VAT) SOD01 - Slim Slot-in DVD/CD combo = 63,90 (without VAT) Attached ...