“Provided is an optical disc drive that can implement a conveying ... it’s still only a rumor for now. Other parts of the patent possibly point to it being a built-in part of the devices.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld the approval of multimillion-dollar settlement agreements in a consumer electronics class action relating to price-fixing conspiracy claims by indirect ...

SSDs have no spinning platters, moving read/write heads or any other moving parts common to traditional ... In addition, except for cooling fans and optical disk drives, your PC will run silently.

Since that date Apple has not sold any Macs with optical drives ... be able to ontain service or parts from Apple or Apple service providers. If you have a CD you are desperate to import into ...

Manufacturers of optical disk drives (ODDs) defeated electronics companies ... form of lower quality finished products or component parts rather than higher prices for the finished goods.

One of the main reasons is the use of rescue boot CDs. Although USB drives can be made bootable, creating a bootable optical disc is often easier and more reliable. USB sticks are also somewhat ...

It helps keep down the cost Fewer moving parts to break There’s not a lot of room in most netbooks for a disc drive Microsoft only makes low cost Windows XP licenses available to PC makers for ...

Samsung has introduced a new desktop hard disk drive to its Spinpoint F series ... platform design with reduces the number of moving parts, thus decreasing noise and boosting reliability.