Apple’s USB SuperDrive might be gone for good

Apple’s USB SuperDrive is showing up successful Apple’s online stores arsenic “sold retired oregon unavailable successful each countries,” MacRumors reports, which could bespeak that Apple has discontinued the CD / DVD player.

It’s not a immense astonishment that Apple mightiness beryllium done with the SuperDrive. The merchandise archetypal launched with the archetypal MacBook Air, which didn’t person an optical drive, successful 2008, truthful it’s rather old. The SuperDrive was shown arsenic “sold out” online connected Apple’s US online store earlier this year. And carnal media conscionable isn’t arsenic wide utilized arsenic it erstwhile was, adjacent though determination person been aggregate caller reminders of why integer ownership sucks.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. The company’s listing for the SuperDrive is inactive connected Apple’s online store, truthful you tin instrumentality a look if you privation to reminisce astir however it would assistance you “watch a DVD movie, instal software, make backup discs, and more.” Good times.

(Of course, if you bash request an outer optical drive, you tin ever bargain 1 that’s not made by Apple.)