Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete
by Samuel Axon from Ars Technica - All content on (#6J9JE)
Enlarge / The 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2012.
Sometimes, it's worth taking a moment to note the end of an era, even when that ending might have happened a long time ago. Today, Apple announced that it considers the mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro obsolete. It was the last MacBook Pro to include an optical drive for playing CDs or DVDs.
This means that any MacBook Pro with an optical drive is no longer supported.
Regarding products deemed obsolete, Apple's support page on the topic says: