The last MacBook Pro with an optical drive is officially dead in Apple’s eyes

Sitting on a shelf in my garage is a 2012 13-inch MacBook Pro. I keep it around because it has an optical drive–it was the last Apple laptop with the feature. Since I’m the go-to tech support guy in the family, I’ve used that laptop more than I expected to get data from old vintage discs. (For you young’uns, an optical drive is used to read data from things called CDs, DVDs, and in some instances (but not this one), Blu-ray discs.) However,

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