none of these did have a cd drive
I am running Mint on a 2011 MacBook Air and it is running just fine. I tried Manjaro recently on an iMac 2014 but it does not come with drivers for Wi-fi and Bluetooth so I went to Mint with this one too. And I installed Mint on a friend’s MacBook Pro, can’t quite remember what year that was, guess 2009. And she hasn’t called me once for support since so I guess no problems.
Don’t remember if my friend‘s Pro had a CD-Rom That were often removed to make room for a second HD or SSD