Apple Declares Last MacBook Pro with Optical Drive Obsolete

The mid-2012 13-inch model, withdrawn from sale in 2016, is no longer supported by the company.

Apple has declared the mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro, the last of its laptops with an optical drive, as obsolete.
The company considers a product obsolete if it was last sold more than seven years ago; the mid-2012 MacBook Pro was withdrawn from sale in October 2016.
The declaration means that any MacBook Pro with an optical drive is no longer supported by Apple.
Apple still sells an external optical drive, the SuperDrive, which can read and burn CDs and DVDs, but it hasn't been updated in a long time and requires an adapter to use with modern Macs.
The mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro has not been supported by the latest versions of macOS for several years, with support ending with the release of macOS Big Sur in 2020.