An external disc connected to a laptop. - Nor Gal/Shutterstock If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs.

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Anyway, too much backstory, the question is: what are the forum picks for external 4K optical disk drives? Ideally, it's powered via USB3.0 so I don't have another adapter to break out, but that's not ...

If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. That's been the case for years, with Apple famously starting ...