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Apple Declares Last MacBook Pro With an Optical Drive Obsolete

posted by hubie on Friday February 02 2024, @09:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the subscription-everything dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/apple-declares-last-macbook-pro-with-an-optical-drive-obsolete/

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.
[...]
Apple stopped selling the mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro in October 2016 (it was available for a while as the company's budget option in the Pro lineup), so anyone doing the math saw this coming.
[...]
The exclusion of an optical drive in subsequent MacBook Pro models was controversial, but it's now clear that whether Apple was jumping the gun at that point or not, optical drives have fallen away for most users, and many Windows laptops no longer include them.
[...]
That's a sign of just how irrelevant optical drives are for today's users, but this seems like a good time to remember a bygone era of physical media that wasn't so long ago. So farewell, mid-2012 13-inch MacBook Pro—honestly, most of us didn't miss you by this point.

[Do you still have a collection of Blu-rays/DVDs? Do you use an Optical Disc drive anymore?] I do.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2024, @02:05AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2024, @02:05AM (#1342889)

    Get off my lawn!

    Vinyl is still best [lelandwest.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday February 05 2024, @03:41PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday February 05 2024, @03:41PM (#1343138) Journal

    Vinyl was the best, when it was new (maybe), it probably wasn't even best when tape was around. Though tape in it's own right was kinda horrible, you at least didn't need a huge/non-portable device to play it.

    The ones that aren't lying to themselves know that they like it best, because of the imperfections. Not, because it's the best reproduction of the content. Which is where we get into CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/Flash Media/etc. and as long as the device you're using is good, there's no discerning between them. Except for possibly the load times, especially with CDs, but then that's not reproduction of sound.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"