The FIC Condor is a great small-formfactor case, no doubt about it. Only problem is that I've killed several optical drives by installing and trying to operate them in the vertical slot that is the ...

I hardly ever use the optical drive in my notebook. Once in awhile I will make some MP3s from a CD. Once every few years I might wipe and reinstall the OS. File backups are more easily done to SD ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...