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.

Archos’ Android tablets tend to be pretty generic, but its latest 7-inch tablet has one big distinction: a 250 GB hard disk drive. Yup, that’s a good old-fashioned spinning disk — the first to appear ...