{"id":498071,"date":"2026-03-27T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498071\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:15:09","slug":"the-apple-mac-pro-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498071\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple Mac Pro Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Apple-Mac-Pro-Is-Dead-800x420.jpg\" alt=\"A computer tower with its side panel removed is shown in the background. The large white letters &quot;RIP&quot; are overlaid across the center of the image.\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-846081\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple is discontinuing the Mac Pro and has no plans to offer future hardware in the Mac Pro line, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/26\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener nofollow\">the company told 9to5Mac today<\/a>. The last Mac Pro was announced in 2023 and, even then, was a confusing product. <\/p>\n<p>The Mac Pro has been removed from Apple\u2019s website and any previous links that did lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/us\/shop\/goto\/buy_mac\/mac_pro\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener nofollow\">a buy page<\/a> for the computer now redirects to a navigation page for all Apple\u2019s Mac offerings \u2014 sans the Mac Pro, of course. <\/p>\n<p>When Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/06\/05\/apple-announces-brand-new-mac-pro-with-apple-silicon-and-pci-expansion\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the new Mac Pro powered by Apple Silicon \u2014 specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/06\/05\/apple-launches-m2-ultra-its-most-powerful-processor-ever\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the M2 Ultra chip<\/a> \u2014 the offering already didn\u2019t make a lot of sense for pretty much everyone. Apple simultaneously announced the Mac Studio powered by the same chip, which is significantly smaller. The hulking, tower design of the Mac Pro \u2014 which Apple migrated back to after the disastrous cylindrical design of the 2013 Mac Pro that many dubbed the \u201ctrash can\u201d \u2014 was mostly empty. <\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Apple-WWDC23-Mac-Pro-M2-Ultra-Mac-Pro-internal-230605-1-800x737.jpg\" alt=\"Mac Pro\" width=\"800\" height=\"737\" class=\"size-large wp-image-686665\"  \/>See the little black square in the upper left corner that says \u201cMac Pro\u201d? That\u2019s the computer. The rest is free space for PCIe expansion. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/06\/05\/the-new-mac-pro-is-not-the-computer-you-think-it-is\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I was at Apple Park<\/a> the day the Mac Pro <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/06\/05\/apple-announces-brand-new-mac-pro-with-apple-silicon-and-pci-expansion\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was announced<\/a>, and looking at all the space on the inside of the tower, I wasn\u2019t really sure there was enough of a market for this thing to sustain the design. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be a lot of people who won\u2019t even pay close attention to the Mac Pro because they\u2019ll think it\u2019s way more computer than they\u2019ll ever need, and they would be right \u2014 but probably not for the reasons they think. If you were to show them the Mac Studio with M2 Ultra, their reaction would probably not be as extreme simply because they have been conditioned to believe the Mac Pro sits high, high above all other Apple computers,\u201d I wrote back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, it just doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, that statement applied for the entire lifespan of the Apple Silicon Mac Pro. <\/p>\n<p>The only thing the Mac Pro offered that the Mac Studio didn\u2019t was expansion slots for PCIe and the ability to upgrade the SSD later. That\u2019s it. For that, you got to pay <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/06\/05\/a-fully-loaded-mac-pro-with-m2-ultra-costs-just-11800\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a hefty $3,000 premium<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how much longer this computer will really need to exist,\u201d I concluded. \u201cThe need for PCIe expansion is already shrinking and once that is no longer needed, the Mac Pro might finally be retired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That day wasn\u2019t today, despite it being the day the Mac Pro was officially buried, but instead was one that passed long ago. It was an inevitable conclusion to the 20-year lifespan of the Mac Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Image credits: Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is discontinuing the Mac Pro and has no plans to offer future hardware in the Mac Pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[304,175219,23003,175220,136091,59,175221,175222,175223,86,56,54,55,39409],"class_list":["post-498071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-applemacpro","tag-computer","tag-desktopcomputer","tag-discontinued","tag-gb","tag-m2ultra","tag-macpro","tag-macprom2ultra","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-workstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}