Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

TL;DR: Fujitsu is reintroducing optical drives in new notebooks amidst Japan's growing demand for Windows 11 PCs that support playing physical media, as people abandon their old Windows 10 hardware ...

When’s the last time you saw a laptop with a spinning disc drive on a store shelf? Outside of a pawn shop, I don’t think I’ve seen one in almost 10 years. But Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu just ...

The Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 2025 brings the company's flagship 16-inch gaming laptop brand up to date with the addition of Nvidia's latest RTX 5000 series GPUs and Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs. At the top ...

Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

Good value for the money. Sturdy build. Pleasant, colorful OLED screen. Solid battery life. The model Asus sent me for review is the Vivobook S 14 OLED (S5406MA-AS96), which includes an Intel Core ...

Compact design with a nice balance of gaming power. Good battery life when not gaming. Vivid G-Sync display. Relatively light for a gaming laptop. Speakers aren’t great. Understated design may not be ...

Edit: Apologies for the length of this, I thank you in advance if you read it and are able to help! A year ago I picked up an Asus Vivobook S 15 with 11 gen intel i7 CPU 15GB ram 1tb storage ...

The best laptops with CD and DVD drives are rapidly encroaching on extinction. Trust me. During my tenure as a laptop reviewer, I haven't seen a single laptop with one! Now that everything can be ...

If you're in the market for a new laptop, the wealth of choice can feel positively overwhelming. You've gotten as far as knowing you need a laptop, either for work, pleasure, or simply so you don't ...

Remember that Gateway EC14D notebook that was announced earlier this year? You know, the one with the 11.6 inch display, Intel CULV processor, and built-in DVD burner? Yeah, you can go ahead and ...

The Asus Eee PC 1004DN is the first Asus netbook to sport an optical disc drive. Heck, it’s one of the first netbooks from any company to make room for a disc drive. While I’d originally heard that ...