Call me old-fashioned, but I miss when PCs had a built-in disc drive. Being able to plop a game into that drive, or show off a DVD to all of my friends, feels nostalgic, and I miss that feeling.

DVDs and CDs, the magical shiny discs that somehow played music and movies, were the première form of multimedia in the 1990s ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...