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Apple’s most expensive desktop is no more. The company has pulled the Mac Pro from sale and confirmed to 9to5Mac that there will be no new version.
The product page is gone, and anyone looking to buy one is now redirected to Apple’s general Mac overview page.
Nobody should be surprised. The Mac Pro had been sitting on shelves untouched since June 2023, priced at around $6,999 with an M2 Ultra chip, while Apple had already replaced that chip with the M3 Ultra in the smaller and considerably cheaper Mac Studio. That was a situation that was always going to resolve itself eventually.
Mac Studio steps up
The Mac Studio will now serve as Apple’s pro desktop of choice. At the top of its range it offers an M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU and 80-core GPU, up to 256 GB of unified memory and 16 TB of SSD storage. What it lacks is the PCIe expandability of the tower, which had long been a core reason to buy a Mac Pro for video producers, audio engineers and research institutions.
A feature introduced with macOS Tahoe 26.2 offers a partial answer to that. Using RDMA over Thunderbolt 5, multiple Macs can be linked into a combined performance system. It is not a like-for-like replacement for PCIe cards, but it opens new options for users who previously relied on internal expandability.
Apple’s current Mac lineup
Apple’s desktop range now consists of three machines: the iMac, the Mac mini and the Mac Studio. On the notebook side, the lineup covers the MacBook Neo, the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro. It is the leanest Mac lineup in years, and arguably the strongest.
Those who never needed PCIe slots will not miss the Mac Pro. For those who did, Apple is closing a door today without opening an equivalent one.
