Apple Confirms Mac Pro Is Dead, No Future Models Planned

Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro and has removed the instrumentality from its website, reports 9to5Mac. Apple said it does not program to plan a caller mentation of the ‌Mac Pro‌, and nary caller exemplary volition beryllium coming successful the future.


The ‌Mac Pro‌ was past updated successful 2023, which was erstwhile Apple added an M2 Ultra Apple silicon chip, but the chassis has not been refreshed since 2019. Apple redesigned the ‌Mac Pro‌ to beryllium much modular successful 2019 aft failing with its "innovative" trashcan Mac Pro, but the instrumentality has ne'er been mainstream owed to its $6,999 starting price.

Apple has mostly replaced the ‌Mac Pro‌ with the Mac Studio, a instrumentality that is smaller and uses newer Apple silicon chips. The ‌Mac Studio‌ is present Apple's high-end desktop instrumentality designed for nonrecreational use.

The existent ‌Mac Studio‌ features an M3 Ultra chip, though it is expected to get an M5 Ultra refresh aboriginal this year. Apple's desktop lineup besides includes the Mac mini and the iMac.

The ‌Mac Pro‌'s downfall started successful 2013 erstwhile Apple introduced a extremist cylindrical plan that turned retired to beryllium a large mistake. The ‌Mac Pro‌'s components were mounted astir a cardinal thermal dissipation halfway and cooled with a azygous instrumentality that pulled aerial from nether the case, done the core, and retired of the apical of the machine. It was quiet, but not efficient.

When Apple announced the 2013 ‌Mac Pro‌, Phil Schiller infamously said "Can't innovate anymore, my ass," successful effect to critics who complained astir the ‌Mac Pro‌'s deficiency of updates and Apple's nonaccomplishment to make products for pro users.

Unfortunately, the 2013 ‌Mac Pro‌'s plan did not see PCIe enlargement slots for graphics cards and different hardware, with enlargement handled done Thunderbolt 2 ports. The plan besides did not relationship for aboriginal updates successful GPU technology, leaving Apple incapable to adhd larger graphics cards and different components to the device.

Apple ended up apologizing to its pro idiosyncratic base and said the 2013 plan was thermally constrained successful a mode that made upgrades impossible. It took Apple until 2019 to unveil the existent ‌Mac Pro‌, which adopted a much modular operation signifier origin with 8 PCIe slots.

After the 2019 launch, the ‌Mac Pro‌ got an Apple silicon spot successful 2023, and that's it. There person been 3 ‌Mac Pro‌ updates successful the past 13 years, truthful it's not astonishing to spot the ‌Mac Pro‌ retired. The ‌Mac Studio‌ offers astir each of the aforesaid capabilities arsenic the ‌Mac Pro‌, with the objection of PCIe enlargement slots.
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