That's it. The last MacBook with a CD/DVD drive is now “vintage” for Apple. Released in June 2012, the Cupertino company is officially putting away a MacBook Pro that marked the years...
Bye bye, MacBook Pro de 2012
Released a little less than ten years ago, this 13” MacBook Pro from 2012 was the last of the brand to integrate a CD/DVD reader. After several years of glory, Apple truly turned the page by stopping its marketing in October 2016.
Note that Apple describes as vintage its products which have not been sold for 5 to 7 years. Today, this MacBook Pro joins the list of vintage products, such as the iPod nano, the iPhone 5, the first iPad and Apple Watch or even the2015 MacBook Retina. A definitive shelving.
In fact, this means that Apple will no longer provide compatible parts to Apple Stores and authorized service centers to repair this model. They will be able to take care of it but only within the limits of available parts… The last step before this MacBook Pro is really out of service, therefore. Seven years after the end of the marketing of the said product, it is considered obsolete. And there, these are real goodbyes.
The 2012 MacBook Pro 13” is the last Apple computer to have a CD/DVD drive and a slew of connectors. Yes, since then, Apple has taken the gamble of reducing the number of ports and it has been almost ten years since the brand abandoned the CD player. Rightly so because fewer and fewer people were using it. Fortunately, the firm thought of those who need it by releasing the SuperDrive…
On the software side, Apple completely sidelined the 2012 MacBook Pro when it switched to macOS Big Sur in November 2020 as a good successor to macOS Catalina. Since then, it has been impossible to update the computer...
By joining the list of vintage products on January 31, the 2012 MacBook Pro will join the pantheon of Apple's iconic products, after many years of good and loyal service.
