The Mac Pro is no longer a product in Apple’s lineup.

For a computer that has caused so much consternation over the years, its story can be told very succinctly. Stephen Hackett captured it all in six sentences:

The Mac Pro was introduced way back in 2006 as a replacement for the outgoing Power Mac G5. It had a good few years, then languished until the 2013 model was announced.

That machine was a dud, and it languished until the 2019 model was announced.

It came out in December 2019, which was less than a year before Apple silicon was announced and the M1 shipped.

The Mac Pro got one last update in June 2023, when Apple dropped the Intel version for one with an M2 Ultra inside. It’s been languishing again ever since.

(Or, for the long version, read this retrospective by Joe Rossignol on MacRumors.)

Definitely sad to see the Mac Pro, and its amazingly-still-modern-looking-even-seven-years-later chassis head to the farm upstate. I’d held out hope for a new screamer of a machine with an ‘Extreme’ M-series chip, but alas.

It seems that Apple was waiting for permission from John Siracusa, the world’s preeminent Mac Pro believer, to kill the product. Here he is in the latest episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast, recorded just last night:

Some Very Good Tweets™

@marcoarment @siracusa if you sell it, I will buy it and wear it to WWDC

@marcoarment @siracusa The Mac Pro dies twice: first, when Apple discontinues it, second, when its name is spoken by John for the last time.

Exciting that both “Believe” shirts were resolved this month.

✅ Upgrade AirPods Max Believe
☠️ ATP Mac Pro Believe

There’s something poetic about the Mac Pro being discontinued as the MacBook Neo takes off like a rocket.

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