The Mac Pro was already dead. Apple just made it official. The high-end desktop’s slow demise began in 2022, when Apple quietly scrapped plans for a flagship chip with double the processing cores of its Ultra-series processors. Without that ultra-powerful silicon, the Mac Pro lost its last legitimate reason to exist — especially since the far smaller, cheaper, quieter, and more practical Mac Studio already delivered similar performance. Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
For the vast majority of professional users (video editors, photographers, 3D artists, developers, and those running AI/ML workloads) the Mac Studio is the superior choice overall. It delivers an excellent balance of performance, price, compact size, and modern features. The Mac Studio covers 90% (or more) of what the Mac Pro once offered, but at a fraction of the cost and with newer silicon, and the promise of regular updates. The discontinued Mac Pro was only preferable, or truly necessary, in the rare cases that demand heavy internal PCIe expansion that cannot be adequately handled externally via Thunderbolt; a very niche market. – MacDailyNews, March 27, 2026 Apple’s Mac Pro is a dead end. Mac Studio is the high-end Mac future now. Bring on the M5 Ultra Mac Studio and rename it “Mac Pro.” – MacDailyNews, November 17, 2025 R.I.P., Mac Pro. Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by using this link to shop at Amazon. The post Apple’s Mac Pro had no real raison d’être appeared first on MacDailyNews. You're currently a free subscriber to MacDailyNews. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
Monday, March 30, 2026
Apple’s Mac Pro had no real raison d’être
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