Mac Pro Reportedly on 'Back Burner' and 'Largely Written Off' at Apple

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Apple's high-end Mac Pro desktop machine is presently "on the backmost burner," according to the latest connection from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said helium heard that Apple has "largely written off" the Mac Pro, with the sentiment wrong the institution being that the Mac Studio represents the contiguous and aboriginal of Apple's pro desktop computing.

Apple is moving connected a high-end M5 Ultra chip, but Gurman said the institution is presently "only" focused connected a caller Mac Studio with that chip, which leads him to judge that the Mac Pro "won't beryllium updated successful 2026 successful a important way."

It sounds similar Gurman has not heard thing astir a Mac Pro with an M5 Ultra spot being successful the works, but helium has not wholly ruled retired the possibility.

In caller years, the Mac Pro has go redundant for galore customers, arsenic it is fundamentally a larger and much costly Mac Studio with PCIe enlargement slots. Apple past updated the Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra spot in June 2023, and Gurman's wording suggests that the aboriginal of the machine whitethorn beryllium successful jeopardy.