It has happened: the Mac Pro is gone, and Apple will not be replacing it.
It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the Mac’s homepage, where all references have been removed.
Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.
The Mac Pro was introduced way back in 2006 as a replacement for the outgoing Power Mac G5. It had a good few years, then languished until the 2013 model was announced.
That machine was a dud, and it languished until the 2019 model was announced.1
It came out in December 2019, which was less than a year before Apple silicon was announced and the M1 shipped.
The Mac Pro got one last update in June 2023, when Apple dropped the Intel version for one with an M2 Ultra inside. It’s been languishing again ever since.
It is clear that Apple sees the Mac Studio as the way forward for high-end desktop computing. Apple silicon did away with the graphics expansion that made the 2019 Intel machine so interesting, leaving all of those slots with far less to do for most users.
This news shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, even if it is a sad ending to what was once an amazing computer.