The 2019 design, like this article’s header image, is currently associated with the phrase “$6,000 cheese grater,” but make no mistake: Apple has been making giant computers for 20 years that often look like box graters — though for a while they looked like garbage cans. Apple started this trend in 2006, creating a case with tiny holes, like you might see in a zester, and it only rolled out larger holes — reminiscent of the kind of thing you might call a “shredder” and use to make hash browns — until recently.
Cheese Graters Mac Pros are powerful tools. Processors generate a lot of heat, and huge cases are filled with hardware that might otherwise be scattered on and around one’s office desk. In other words, both the spaciousness and the holes – which let heat out – are practical. The Mac Pro, which was small and didn’t look like a cheese grater, was considered a major failure.
But it seems Apple has found something with Mac Studio that it hasn’t before. Our review called it “the new king of desktops for creative professionals and those with heavy workloads.”
So for a product that is, as Gurman said, “three times larger in volume than the Mac Studio and costs $3,000 more,” the Mac Pro has been looking pretty bad for some time. After removing the Mac Pro from its site, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that it is discontinuing it.
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