Apple officially kills production of staple product they've been selling for 20 years
Apple has announced that it is officially discontinuing a product that has been a staple of the firm for two decades.
After 20 years of production, the Mac Pro will no longer be stocked by the tech giant, with the iconic computer system no longer available to purchase from Apple Stores or on the website.
This marks the end of an era after the Mac Pro first launched back in 2006, which at the time replaced the Power Mac G5 as their high-end professional desktop.
The final version of the Mac Pro was the M2 Ultra, which was released in 2023.
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However, this model never got a follow-up and eventually became outdated, now it looks like this will be the last version of the product to exist.
The Mac Pro was often referred to as the ‘cheese grater’ due to its striking appearance.
Many people have taken to social media to share their reactions to the Mac Pro leaving the shelves, with one user writing on Reddit: “End of an era. I remember sitting in my IT college class and playing around with the Mac Pro configurator page, racking up a price of £40,000+ and being in awe of such a powerful machine. My M2 MacBook Air I'm using now is probably way more powerful than that Mac Pro.”
Another said: “I mean the Studio is already way surpassed it so, I'm more surprised they were still selling it.”
A third person commented: “Everyone here is saying that a Mac Pro is not necessary because the Studio is so good, but i am very disappointed in this. I’m in one of the few industries that still purchases these - obsolete or no.
“If you want to stream a bunch of 4K ST2110 streams into a Mac, it’s totally doable on a Mac Pro but either impossible or completely impractical on a Studio. Any application that requires multiple PCIe cards pushing a lot of bandwidth is better on a Pro. Of course since the Pro doesn’t support GPUs a bunch of potential uses are impossible. I was hoping to release a monster M5 with shared memory over PCI to allow video IO through a card directly from the frame buffer.”
And a fourth added: “They said they had big plans for a new Mac Pro when M first chips launched, curious what fell through. Maybe Vision Pro or Apple intelligence took priority.”