{"id":227987,"date":"2026-03-26T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:55:12","slug":"rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Mac Pro: Apple officially kills its tower computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3100222\/rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer.html\">RIP Mac Pro: Apple officially kills its tower computer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3100222\/rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer.html\">https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3100222\/rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 19:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.macworld.com\">www.macworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Summary created by Smart Answers AI<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"miso-summary-title\" id=\"in-summary\">In summary:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple has officially discontinued the Mac Pro tower computer after 18 years, with Macworld confirming its removal from Apple.com.<\/li>\n<li>The company views the Mac Studio as the superior replacement for professional workstation performance and high-end computing tasks.<\/li>\n<li>The final Mac Pro received its last update in 2023 with an M2 Ultra chip, though refurbished units remain available through Apple\u2019s store.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While Apple is celebrating its upcoming 50th anniversary and looks forward to another 50 years, there\u2019s one major product that has come to an end. The Mac Pro, as confirmed by Apple with Macworld, has been discontinued by the company. The Mac Pro section of Apple.com has been removed from the website, though Mac Pros are still available through Apple\u2019s Certified Refurbished store.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a quiet end for a product that was last updated in 2023 with an M2 Ultra chip. But it wasn\u2019t a surprise; Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman reported last November that Apple had \u201clargely written off\u201d the Mac Pro, believing that the Mac Studio is a better product. Why it took so long to finally pull the plug isn\u2019t clear, but Apple hadn\u2019t done any updates to the hardware since the M2 Ultra upgrade nearly three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has been rumored to have an update to the Mac Studio in the works, with an announcement likely between now and WWDC26. Apple positions the Mac Studio as the machine for production environments that demand workstation performance, and seemingly feels confident that the Mac Studio can fill the Mac Pro\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n<p>The discontinuation of the Mac Pro leaves Apple without a modular tower computer, but it\u2019s been moving away from those types of machines for a while. In response to those who think an expandable tower is a gaping hole in the Mac lineup, Apple often counters with confidence that its silicon can make up for the need for expansion cards, and Thunderbolt can handle storage needs just as&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3100222\/rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Mac Pro: Apple officially kills its tower computer https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3100222\/rip-mac-pro-apple-officially-kills-its-tower-computer.html Publish Date: 2026-03-26 19:06:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mac-Pro.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[63,54],"class_list":["post-227987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-mac-pro","tag-mac-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227989,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227987\/revisions\/227989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}