Apple Killed the Mac Pro After 20 Years. The Replacement Is a Smaller Box With No Slots.

Apple recently announced that it was discontinuing the Mac Pro. Not updating, not pausing, completely discontinuing. After 20 years, the product that exemplified professional computing at Apple is no more. No replacement. No "we'll see you shortly." Just a silent redirection from apple.com/mac-pro over to the Mac landing page. The Final Update The final update came in June 2023. An M2 Ultra under the hood of the old cheese grater case from 2019. Seven PCIe slots that were unable to accept a GPU. A beginning cost of $6,999 for a model that was essentially a bigger Mac Studio. And that is accurately the issue. After Apple made the transition to its own chips, the Mac Pro lost its essence. The whole point of a Pro tower is that it is supposed to be able to expand. You replace your GPU. You add RAM. You plug in cards engineered for video, audio production, or fiber optic interconnection. Apple Silicon eliminated a great deal of that. The GPU has been installed into the chip. The RAM has be