Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who ...

Page 2: Kenwood's 72X True X CDROM Drive - Page 2 Once in a blue moon, we get a product in here at Hot Hardware that absolutely knocks our socks off. It doesn't happen very often and we test a lot of ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

Ok, for some reason after posting the OTHER topic of this name it was locked instantly... wtf? Oh well anyway here is what I posted:<BR><BR>Ok I searched and the results for issues where the BIOS ...

READER GERRY CHING reports that upgrading to Windows Me, Windows 2000, and some other new products can cause some of your CD-ROM drive features not to work. So this week, we’ll show why this is and ...

Those old CD games that have been sitting on your shelf for eternity? Linux can run them.

Conventional CD-ROM drives spin the CD faster to read the data more quickly. By using multiple lasers, Zen Research (zenresearch.com) approaches hard-drive speeds (as high as 52X). Only Compaq offers ...

Since a prototype of the fabled, unreleased SNES-CD (aka the “Nintendo PlayStation”) was first found and disassembled last year, we’ve learned enough about this one-of-a-kind piece of hardware to ...

introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI ...