When I bought a new laptop earlier this year, it was after several cautionary notes from fellow ET contributors that I might regret not waiting a few months for Ivy Bridge. I was thrilled with the ...

Hard drives and optical drives are the most failure-prone items on a laptop. They're also among the easiest to swap out, upgrade, or, in some cases, live without. Here are the best fixes for saving, ...

So sometime recently my Dell laptop drive seems to rub slightly on the disc in one spot, which ends up leaving a nice scuffed ring on the disc surface. It makes a nasty sound when this happens, and ...

March 19, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Whether you use your laptop's optical drive or not, it's important to keep it clean so it's there for you when ...