Dell is the world’s third-largest personal computer maker and the largest private employer in Central Texas, with about 14,000 workers here. Optical drives go into Blu-ray and DVD players ...

The Dell Inspiron 14z Ultrabook is actually a thin, light, general-purpose laptop with Ultrabook aspirations and an optical drive. Thanks to its Ivy Bridge processor, discrete graphics card ...

The companies were accused of colluding to inflate the prices of optical drives sold to big computer companies and retailers. When HP and Dell placed orders for lots of optical discs, the lawsuit ...

Dell revealed the new XPS 14z laptop.This laptop is the thinnest full-featured 14-inch laptop that has an internal optical drive. At less than an inch thick and a starting weight of 4.36 pounds ...

thin - allowing Michael Dell's company to claim the title of world's thinnest, fully-featured 14-inch laptop that includes an optical drive. Like LG, Dell has also sacrificed some space around the ...

One interesting break from current trends is that Dell still managed to work in an optical drive, despite the thin chassis. Many ultrabooks and ultrabook-style laptops skip that now, even ones ...

it may be even faster than the optical drives that used to come built into laptops and desktops. The Dell DW316 won’t come at the expense of precious desk space either, since it’s a mere 5.7 ...

This included Dell’s own suit of laptop models ... something left unquestioned. If you had a laptop, there was an optical drive in it. You may like Laptop processors are better than ever ...

Buyers of Dell and Hewlett-Packard ... to keep these markets competitive. Optical drive pricing is less important now, as today’s ultralight laptops often do not have them, and modern operating ...

Hard disk drives have followed optical drives (CD/DVD ... if not eliminated entirely, in laptops by the end of the year as the average price per storage of solid state drives continue their ...