It's no good having a sleek, light-weight netbook if you need a big old external DVD writer to go with it. So says Samsung. Accordingly, the company has been working on the prototype of a drive 25% lighter and 20% smaller than anything else out there.

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Asus has announced the launch of the SDRW-08D1S-U external slim DVD writer, angled as ideal for use with netbooks that have no optical drive of their own as well as for home users wanting to back data up to DVD.

With sleek, glossy black...

Sandberg has announced the new USB CD Mini Reader, a budget offering available through Amazon in the UK.

Aimed at owners of netbooks that typically don't offer an optical drive for size and cost reasons, the portable CD reader connects up...