Apple Kills the Mac Pro. No Replacement Is Coming.
Apple has officially discontinued the Mac Pro and confirmed it has no plans to release future Mac Pro hardware. The product page has been removed from Apple's website, with the buy link now redirecting to the Mac homepage.
The current Mac Pro design launched in 2019 alongside the Pro Display XDR, which was also discontinued earlier this month. Apple updated it with the M2 Ultra chip in June 2023 but never brought it to M3 or M4. It has been sitting at its $6,999 starting price for nearly three years while the rest of the Mac lineup surged ahead.
The Mac Studio is clearly positioned as the replacement. With M4 Max and M3 Ultra configurations available, it offers up to a 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 256GB of unified memory, and 16TB of storage. Apple also introduced RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 in macOS Tahoe 26.2, letting users cluster multiple Mac Studios together for scaled performance.
Apple's desktop lineup now consists of three machines: the 24-inch iMac with M4, the Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro, and the Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra. On the laptop side, there's the MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro.
The writing has been on the wall for a while. The Mac Pro was increasingly hard to justify when the Mac Studio offered better performance at a fraction of the price. Still, it marks the end of an era for Apple's most powerful desktop, a machine that was once the centerpiece of professional creative workflows.
