in El Capitano.
This is the skinny from Apple
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22122?locale=en_US
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Hi --
Last week I ordered (at a Mac store), the Macbook Pro without Retina, especially for the internal CD drive. Maybe a day or 2 before my order, I saw that that Mac was now loaded with El Capitan, instead of Yosemite. I didn't think much of it until today when I was looking for information/screen shots on El Capitan and came across the Disk Utility screen which boasted the removal of "now outmoded" burn and erase functions. I called Apple to try to determine if I was going to be able to read and burn cds with El Capitan but got a couple of flaky "confirmations". Does anyone know how cds are dealt with via El Capitan? This is a deal-breaker for me so if anyone has some insights, I would love to hear them - Thanks

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