{"id":381210,"date":"2026-01-01T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381210\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:55:11","slug":"whats-happening-with-the-mac-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/381210\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Happening With the Mac Pro?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple hasn’t updated the Mac Pro<\/a> since 2023, and according to recent rumors, there’s no update coming in the near future. In fact, Apple might be finished with the \u200cMac Pro\u200c.<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg<\/a> recently said that the \u200cMac Pro\u200c is “on the back burner” and has been “largely written off” by Apple. Apple apparently views the more compact Mac Studio<\/a> as the ideal high-end pro-level desktop, and it has almost replaced the \u200cMac Pro\u200c.<\/p>\n

Apple is working on an M5 Ultra chip that will come out next year, but Bloomberg says the company is only planning to use it in the \u200cMac Studio\u200c, and not in an updated \u200cMac Pro\u200c. Apple has no plans to update the \u200cMac Pro\u200c in 2026 in a “significant way.” If we are truly at the end for the \u200cMac Pro\u200c, will we see Apple discontinue it when the next-generation \u200cMac Studio\u200c launches?<\/p>\n

The current \u200cMac Studio\u200c has a newer, higher-end M3 Ultra chip that supports more CPU cores, more GPU cores, more maximum storage (16TB vs. 8TB), and more maximum unified memory (512GB vs. 192GB). The \u200cMac Studio\u200c can support up to four 8K displays, while the \u200cMac Pro\u200c is limited to three, and the \u200cMac Pro\u200c doesn’t have Thunderbolt 5.<\/p>\n

The \u200cMac Pro\u200c has fallen behind, and the gap will only increase with the launch of an M5 Ultra \u200cMac Studio\u200c. The only benefit that the \u200cMac Pro\u200c offers over the \u200cMac Studio\u200c is PCIe expansion slots. It’s heavier, bulkier, and more expensive than the \u200cMac Studio\u200c when comparing equivalent RAM and storage. For most people, there’s no reason to choose a \u200cMac Pro\u200c over a \u200cMac Studio\u200c, but some of Apple’s high-end customers still need the space for things like RED capture cards and specialized audio interfaces.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Apple has struggled with meeting the needs of pro users who want a desktop. The now-infamous “trash can” \u200cMac Pro\u200c that came out in 2013 prioritized design over functionality, and the machine ended up being a failure. Apple was criticized for misunderstanding its pro user base because there was no space for internal upgrades like additional GPUs.<\/p>\n

Apple was never able to update the trash can \u200cMac Pro\u200c because it wasn’t thermally capable<\/a> of supporting rapidly evolving GPUs. In 2019, Apple unveiled a modular \u200cMac Pro\u200c that had a more traditional enclosure able to support expansion with eight PCIe slots and three impeller fans. Apple did update the \u200cMac Pro\u200c a couple of times after that, but it has once again been sidelined.<\/p>\n

Apple is still selling the M2<\/a> Ultra version of the \u200cMac Pro\u200c and it hasn’t been discontinued or removed from the company’s website. Until it’s officially discontinued, there’s a chance we could get another \u200cMac Pro\u200c at some point in the future, but it doesn’t sound like 2026 will be the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple hasn’t updated the Mac Pro since 2023, and according to recent rumors, there’s no update coming in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[831,154525,74],"class_list":["post-381210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-featured","tag-mac-pro","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}