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No surprise there. It was basically a dead duck when Apple moved to
Apple Silicon because you cannot really upgrade them. The insane
pricing for things like swapping the case's legs for wheels didn't help either.



Apple Confirms Mac Pro Is Dead, No Future Models Planned
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Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro and has removed the machine
from its website, reports 9to5Mac. Apple said it does not plan
to design a new version of the ‌Mac Pro‌, and no new model will
be coming in the future.

The ‌Mac Pro‌ was last updated in 2023, which was when Apple
added an M2 Ultra Apple silicon chip, but the chassis has not
been refreshed since 2019. Apple redesigned the ‌Mac Pro‌ to be
more modular in 2019 after failing with its "innovative"
trashcan Mac Pro, but the machine has never been mainstream
due to its $6,999 starting price.

Apple has largely replaced the ‌Mac Pro‌ with the Mac Studio, a
device that is smaller and uses newer Apple silicon chips. The
‌Mac Studio‌ is now Apple's high-end desktop machine designed
for professional use.

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

The ‌Mac Pro‌'s downfall started in 2013 when Apple introduced a
radical cylindrical design that turned out to be a major
mistake. The ‌Mac Pro‌'s components were mounted around a
central thermal dissipation core and cooled with a single fan
that pulled air from under the case, through the core, and out
of the top 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," in response to critics
who complained about the ‌Mac Pro‌'s lack of updates and Apple's
failure to create products for pro users.

Unfortunately, the 2013 ‌Mac Pro‌'s design did not include PCIe
expansion slots for graphics cards and other hardware, with
expansion handled through Thunderbolt 2 ports. The design also
did not account for future updates in GPU technology, leaving
Apple unable to add larger graphics cards and other components
to the device.

Apple ended up apologizing to its pro user base and said the
2013 design was thermally constrained in a way that made
upgrades impossible. It took Apple until 2019 to unveil the
current ‌Mac Pro‌, which adopted a more standard tower form
factor with eight PCIe slots.

After the 2019 launch, the ‌Mac Pro‌ got an Apple silicon chip in
2023, and that's it. There have been three ‌Mac Pro‌ updates in
the last 13 years, so it's not surprising to see the ‌Mac Pro‌
retired. The ‌Mac Studio‌ offers almost all of the same
capabilities as the ‌Mac Pro‌, with the exception of PCIe
expansion slots.


<https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-mac-pro/>




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