Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is an ultra-premium product that sometimes disappears and then comes back, but for now, Apple has moved on, effectively replacing it with the Mac Studio, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
The 2019 design, like in the header image for this article, is the one currently associated with the phrase “$6,000 cheese grater,” but make no mistake: Apple has been making colossal computers that often look like box graters for 20 years—though for a while they looked like trash cans instead. Apple started the trend in 2006, creating a case with teeny-tiny holes like you might see in a zester, and it only rolled out the big holes—more reminiscent of the sort of thing you might call a “shredder” and use to make hash browns—more recently.
Cheese grater Mac Pros are powerful tools. The processors generate a lot of heat, and the enormous cases are full of hardware that might otherwise be scattered on and around someone’s office desk. In other words, both the hugeness and the holes—which let heat out—are practical. The Mac Pro that was smaller and didn’t look like a cheese grater was considered a huge failure.
But Apple seems to have gotten something right that it hadn’t before with the Mac Studio. Our review called it “the new king of desktops for creative professionals and those with heavy-duty workloads.”
So as a product that was, as Gurman put it, “three times larger in volume than the Mac Studio and cost $3,000 more,” the Mac Pro has been looking pretty doomed for a while. After removing the Mac Pro from its site, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that it was discontinuing it.
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