Apple has confirmed to Engadget that the Mac Pro, the desktop tower-sized computer that was last updated in 2023, has been discontinued. As 9to5Mac Note, the computer no longer appears in its lineup of Macs on Apple’s website or its storefront. That means, at least for now, the Mac Studio is Apple’s top professional computer.
The current version of the Mac Pro was introduced in 2019 with a distinctive cheese-grater design, Intel chips, and a range of easily accessible expansion slots. Apple released the computer as a make-good for several years due to it inadequately meeting the performance needs of professional Mac users, but its uncontested time at the top of the company’s lineup was short-lived. A year later in 2020, Apple began making changes to its custom M-series Arm chips, proving that Macs could become more powerful and power-efficient by ditching Intel altogether.
Apple eventually updated the Mac Pro to the M2 Ultra without updating the computer’s design, but by then the writing was on the wall. The much smaller Mac Studio, introduced in 2022, also supported the new chip, and has since been updated while the Mac Pro has been discontinued. bloomberg Apple was reported to be planning to retire the Mac Pro in November 2025, so it’s no surprise that the company quietly discontinued it just a few months later.
Apple’s efforts to meet the needs of professionals, creators, and anyone who needs the convenience of editing on a fast computer continues through Mac Studio, and the recently announced Studio Display XDR is the replacement for the Pro Display XDR that Apple announced for the 2019 Mac Pro. Now the company just has to update the Mac Studio with the M5 Max chip to make it the most “pro” computer Apple has to offer.
Update, March 26, 6:25pm ET: Added confirmation from Apple that the Mac Pro has been discontinued.
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