{"id":563340,"date":"2026-03-27T01:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563340\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:57:07","slug":"apples-mac-pro-is-dead-apparently-for-good-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563340\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s Mac Pro is dead, apparently for good this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The most expensive Mac you could get is no longer available on Apple\u2019s website, as <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/26\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9to5Mac<\/a> reports that the \u201ccheese grater\u201d Mac Pro workstation has been discontinued. It had been a part of the lineup since replacing the Power Mac G5 in 2006 when Apple shifted from Arm to Intel processors, but it\u2019s had the feeling of a vestigial limb ever since Apple dropped Intel for its own M-series chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The M2 Ultra edition of the Mac Pro launched three years ago, with Apple hardware exec and possible future CEO John Ternus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/6\/7\/23752425\/mac-pro-apple-silicon-transition-professional-users-trashcan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saying that<\/a> \u201cfor those users who need the versatility of internal expansion, Mac Pro combines PCIe slots with our most powerful chip.\u201d But without support for adding a new GPU, many of the professionals who should\u2019ve been in its target market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23770770\/apple-mac-pro-m2-ultra-2023-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told us that they didn\u2019t want one<\/a>, with or without optional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/15\/21222310\/apple-mac-pro-feet-wheels-kits-stainless-steel-price-delivery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$699 wheels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/reviews\/627419\/apple-mac-studio-m3-ultra-first-look-benchmarks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Studio<\/a> offered similar options without those slots for $3,000 less at the time. Now it stands as the most powerful machine in Apple\u2019s lineup, with M4 Max and M3 Ultra-powered options available now and, likely, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/888090\/apple-m5-pro-max-processors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M5 Ultra<\/a> variants on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple has acknowledged that 2013\u2019s \u201ctrash can\u201d Mac Pro design put it into a thermal corner it couldn\u2019t find a way out of, as large single-GPU cards became preferred over multiple GPUs. Pro users wanted more options, with Red Digital Cinema president Jarred Land <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bi79vUO0GMk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stopping during a talk in 2018 <\/a>to tell an Apple employee that \u201cWe need Nvidia support\u2026 it\u2019s not good for the community to just be on one platform so please just think about it, please.\u201d Apple addressed those needs at the time by going <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/6\/3\/18646424\/apple-mac-pro-redesign-new-specs-features-photos-wwdc-2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back to the tower<\/a>, but now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/821795\/the-mac-pro-just-isnt-important-to-apple-anymore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s leaving<\/a> the Mac Studio and Thunderbolt 5 as its primary option for customers who need to add something extra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most expensive Mac you could get is no longer available on Apple\u2019s website, as 9to5Mac reports that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1572,49,48,17787,44,64,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-563340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-macos","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}