After two years, the Mac Pro was “updated” today, sort of: now we can choose slightly faster two-year-old CPUs at the top end, and the other two-year-old CPU options are cheaper now.
That’s about it.
No Xeon E5 CPUs, no USB 3, no Thunderbolt. They’re even shipping the same two-year-old graphics cards. Same motherboard, slightly different CPU options from 2010. That’s it.
If there were doubts before, there shouldn’t be now — the Mac Pro is dying. With such a lackluster update, its clear that Apple doesn’t care about the machine.
While the entire computer market has shifted to the notebook, there are still legitimate reasons to purchase and use a Mac Pro, but Apple seems to think that list is shrinking.