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Apple Adding Last MacBook Pro With CD Drive to Vintage Products List

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Apple will be adding the Mid 2012 model of the 13-inch MacBook Pro to its vintage products list on January 31, according to an internal memo obtained by MacRumors.

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Released in June 2012, this 13-inch MacBook Pro model was the last Mac with a built-in CD/DVD drive sold by Apple. It remained for sale until October 2016 as a lower-priced option alongside the thinner 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina display.

Apple considers a device vintage once more than five years have passed since it stopped distributing the device for sale. Vintage products used to be ineligible for repairs in most regions, but Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers now offer repairs for vintage products for up to seven years, subject to parts availability.

On the software side, Apple dropped support for the Mid 2012 model of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with macOS Big Sur in 2020.

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Yesterday I was fiddling around with Apple Music on my Mac and saw ”Burn CD” in some menu and clicked it just to see what would happen since I only have newer Macs. No errors or anything, it started burning a CD. I have no idea where it burned that CD to! Can you still even buy CD-Rs? Did Apple even port that code over when they moved from iTunes to Apple Music? I’m so confused.
 
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I had the 15 inch version of this. I replaced the CD/DVD drive with a second HDD. The thing was a beast but it was built like a tank and just ran and ran and ran. It was fantastic.
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Had the same one, added a SATA SSD in the optical bay and managed to set it up as a fusion drive back when that was a thing.
 
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i will buy one CD this year, my last was 2020 Pat Metheny "from this place'


Jan 31st, wow, i was going to buy one lf those MacBook pros last week
but love the MacBook air and the mini does everything!
im not surprised tho about  nixing the MBP'12 this early
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macduke said:
Yesterday I was fiddling around with Apple Music on my Mac and saw ”Burn CD” in some menu and clicked it just to see what would happen since I only have newer Macs. No errors or anything, it started burning a CD. I have no idea where it burned that CD to! Can you still even buy CD-Rs? Did Apple even port that code over when they moved from iTunes to Apple Music? I’m so confused.
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Check your download folder.
And yes, they’re still available, still serve a need for some folks and don’t forget some people have older cars with CD players…
 
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HiVolt said:
I'd be pretty pissed if I bought a laptop 5 years ago and couldn't get authorized service for it.

This is not an issue with other makers, they don't sell 4-5 year old stuff at full price. They probably even sold it refurb for longer than 2016.
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id be pretty pissed if id made a comment without reading the article. It was offered at a lower price than the current offerings, anyone who bough it would already know that it was an older device with older hardware that tens to become obsolete, Cudos that they are still running.
 
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macduke said:
I have no idea where it burned that CD to!
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That's brilliant. Well, at least it burned it for you! :)

As a side-note, I had a 15" 2012 with the matte finish, high-res screen. It was pretty awesome until the GPU packed it in... Honestly, it took 9 years for them to make a machine I'm as happy with... (Though I'll admit I never had a 2014/15, which I know a lot of folks loved.) My 16" M1 Pro 32GB/2TB is pretty awesome, so far. Woot.
 
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blazerunner said:
The last upgradeable MacBook...
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They are all upgradeable, as new ones come out, you sell the old one, get a return far in excess of the "competitors" and get a new one. Awesome - you are far ahead of the curve, not struggling with older stuff, unless the lower price appeals to you. Of course you could go Dell and get a crap Ssd, buy a good one and throw the stock one away, I guess, if that is your thing. Of course the 2 lanes instead of 4 kinda stuck and your stuck with that
 
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GMShadow said:
It was pathetic that they sold it as long as they did. A middling product in 2012, a terrible product by 2015.

Good bye, and good riddance, MD101LL/A.
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and still probably faster than most chrome books, just sayin. some people want something that is good enough at the lowest price they can get
 
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GMShadow said:
It was pathetic that they sold it as long as they did. A middling product in 2012, a terrible product by 2015.

Good bye, and good riddance, MD101LL/A.
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Hmm, mind lasted 2009 till 2016 even though I spilt tequila on the screen in the first 6 months. Down the road I replaced the HDD for an SDD, a fresh battery and 8 more gm of RAM. I thought it did pretty well.
 
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I've got two. SSD drives replaced the spinners. Batteries replaced. Recently the hard drive cable for one went "out of spec" and the drive became nearly unusable. Replaced the cable, better than new. Meet 95% of my needs. (The odd time I render out a video I think about upgrading.) Really love these.
 
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GMShadow said:
It was pathetic that they sold it as long as they did. A middling product in 2012, a terrible product by 2015.
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I wonder how much longer our 2015 Retina MacBook Pro we just bought will have before being declared vintage.

We also have a 2017 non-Retina MacBook Air, but I suspect that will get a couple of years longer OS support, despite being an inferior machine with the same generation of CPU. The 2015 MB Pro was discontinued in 2017, and the 2017 MB Air was discontinued 2019, but both are Broadwell 5th generation.

As pointed out by others here, what's interesting with the 2017 MB Air is that it the same machine with the same generation CPU as the 2015 MB Air, with the same MacBookAir7,2 designation, which makes us wonder if the 2015 MB Air (like the 2017 MB Air) will get longer OS support too vs. the 2015 MB Pro.
 
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