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.

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.

Apple’s M3 Pro MacBook Pro benchmarks show it’s not much faster than the M2 Pro, and there’s little justification to upgrade from an M1 Pro Mac.