It seems like it was only a matter of time. In 2019, Apple finally gave in to vocal requests for a PC-like modular professional tower system to replace its idiosyncratic 2013-era trash-can Mac Pro, but it never really felt like the company’s heart was in the new, somewhat more traditional model. Apple last refreshed it in 2023 with an M2 Ultra processor, after which it simply began the process of slowly vanishing. On Thursday, the company confirmed to 9to5Mac that it had been discontinued and wouldn’t be replaced.
I reached out to Apple for more information, but didn’t immediately hear back.
Part of the Mac Pro’s problem was that the intent didn’t fit comfortably into Apple’s system-on-chip strategy for its M-series processors. As I commented at the time, “One irony of the M2 Ultra upgrade, though, is that Apple has essentially made the Mac Pro less modular, which was the reason everyone clamored
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