Apple's old Mac Pro, with two optical drives. It now has zero. (Credit: Apple) The disc drive is dead -- or it's at least issuing a triumphant death rattle. The disc drive is dead -- or it's at least ...

Wow, here’s a fantastic hack from the RetroMacCast forum, in which contributor Charles Mangin creates a new body for a Mac mini – using the body of an ancient Apple Disk ][ drive. The drive door works ...

The last MacBook to feature a CD drive has now been sent to Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) purgatory. Launched in 2012, the 13-inch MacBook Pro is now an "obsolete product." What Happened: The 2012 ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn't ...

You are about to transfer some important files from an external drive to your Mac, and suddenly you get the message “Disk Not Ejected Properly” The transfer fails, and you have to start all over again ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...

Apart from the default startup disk, Mac computers can be set to start up from a different disk like an external drive, network volume, or a USB flash drive. This article explains the process for ...

The latest version of macOS Ventura breaks compatibility with Pioneer's lineup of USB-connected CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives for the Mac. The root cause of the issue is unclear at this time, but Pioneer has ...

Apple has long offered a way for you to access the startup volume on one Mac as a drive that appears on another that’s directly connected. Until recently, that methods was known as Target Disk Mode, ...

Along with the long-awaited iPad Mini announcement today, Apple revealed what it called its Fusion Drive, which combines the high performance of NAND flash with the storage capacity of a hard disk ...