Apple has finally killed off the Mac Pro

Apple has confirmed the Mac Pro is discontinued with no successor planned, leaving the Mac Studio as the company's top-end desktop for pro users.

Time, or more accurately the M-series chips and the rise of AI, has finally caught up with the Mac Pro. After months of speculation about a new model launching, the current one has been removed from the Apple website and the company has confirmed to 9to5Mac  that it is being discontinued. 

Not only that, but Apple has no plans to offer new Mac Pro hardware in the future.

Search for Mac Pro on the Apple site and the links are still there, but they all just point to the generic Mac page. 

Six of the best?

That leaves the current Mac lineup extremely strong but without the highest of high-end machines sitting at the top.

The current roster runs the gamut from cheap-ish and accessible to expensive and very powerful:

• Desktop: 24-inch iMac with M4, Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro, Mac Studio

• Laptop: MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro

The last Mac Pro has not been at the high-end for a while. The last model was released in June 2023, making it the last Mac to transition away from Intel processors to Apple silicon. The $6999 machine featured an M2 Ultra chip, and had already fallen behind by March last year when the M3 Ultra-powered Mac Studio debuted with more CPU cores, more GPU cores, more RAM, more storage, and the ability to support more screens.

It also did it for a $5000 lower starting price, which is a compelling argument no matter what a thing of beauty that Mac Pro chassis is

One more factor. As 9to5Mac also reports, macOS Tahoe 26.2  introduced RDMA over Thunderbolt last year. This enables high performance, peer-to-peer networking between Mac computers connected with Thunderbolt 5, effectively allowing high-end users to join Macs together if they really want to scale performance.

It's not going to work for everybody though. One of the big benefits of the Mac Pro was its seven PCIe slots which high-end post users could fill with video/audio I/O cards, fibre channel, and networking. Thunderbolt covers most use cases, but not all.

Wheels stop turning

Also canned is the Mac Pro wheel kit. This was introduced in 2020 and is very much a dishonorable member of the Ludicrously Expensive Apple Accessories club, the company charging $700 for the four — admittedly very nice looking — wheels. This was counterpointed by the $300 feet kit, for those who had ordered wheels when buying their machine but now wanted a different option.

Either way, both kits now follow the Mac Pro into the mists of history.

Meanwhile, a Mac Studio M5 refresh is expected before WWDC 2026.