Apple's flagship professional workstation has reached its end after nearly two decades, with the company confirming it has discontinued the Mac Pro and has no plans for future hardware.
The Mac Pro disappeared from Apple's website earlier this week, with all purchase links now redirecting to the general Mac homepage. This marks the final chapter for a product line that began in 2006 as Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel processors.
Apple last updated the workstation in June 2023 with its M2 Ultra chip, leaving it stuck at a $6,999 starting price while newer M3 Ultra silicon arrived in the more compact Mac Studio. That desktop now stands as Apple's most powerful computer, configurable with up to 256GB of unified memory and 16TB of storage.
The decision follows years of declining relevance for the modular tower design. While earlier generations offered PCIe expansion slots that appealed to video editors and audio professionals, the latest version lacked support for external GPUs, a critical limitation for its target market.
"the workstation Mac users have been dreaming about,"
Apple originally introduced the Mac Pro in August 2006 with that statement from then-CEO Steve Jobs. The aluminum tower design earned it the "cheese grater" nickname that persisted through multiple redesigns, including a controversial cylindrical model in 2013 that Apple later admitted suffered from thermal constraints.
Professional users who valued internal expansion options now face limited choices within Apple's ecosystem. The company's desktop lineup currently consists of just three products: iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Studio.
With this discontinuation, Apple completes its transition away from user-upgradable professional workstations toward integrated systems where performance scaling happens through software features like RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 connectivity between multiple machines.
