A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

Gaming laptops these days are all about being as thin and light as possible, but that wasn't always the case. Proof? Here's ...

Western Digital Corp. has more than doubled its share of disk drives for laptop computers in the past year, a feat analysts call “tremendous” in a business known for cutthroat competition. “It’s not ...

WTF?! PC users rarely rely on optical media anymore, and when they do, it's usually through an external USB drive – particularly on laptops. Most notebook manufacturers phased out built-in disc trays ...