{"id":229017,"date":"2026-03-29T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/apple-sealed-the-mac-pros-fate-back-in-2022-by-reducing-expansion-slot-capabilities-and-the-mac-studio-that-arrived-with-a-3000-smaller-starting-price\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:15:11","slug":"apple-sealed-the-mac-pros-fate-back-in-2022-by-reducing-expansion-slot-capabilities-and-the-mac-studio-that-arrived-with-a-3000-smaller-starting-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/29\/apple-sealed-the-mac-pros-fate-back-in-2022-by-reducing-expansion-slot-capabilities-and-the-mac-studio-that-arrived-with-a-3000-smaller-starting-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Sealed The Mac Pro\u2019s Fate Back In 2022 By Reducing Expansion Slot Capabilities And The Mac Studio That Arrived With A $3,000 Smaller Starting Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-sealed-fate-of-the-mac-pro-back-in-2022\/\">Apple Sealed The Mac Pro\u2019s Fate Back In 2022 By Reducing Expansion Slot Capabilities And The Mac Studio That Arrived With A $3,000 Smaller Starting Price<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-sealed-fate-of-the-mac-pro-back-in-2022\/\">https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-sealed-fate-of-the-mac-pro-back-in-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-29 11:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wccftech.com\">wccftech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The M3 Ultra\u00a0getting announced exclusively for the updated Mac Studio was the ultimate sign that Apple had little to no interest in keeping the Mac Pro a part of its lineup, and just a few days ago, the company admitted that no more models of the tower workstation will launch in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Cupertino firm confirmed its plans to several media outlets, the machine\u2019s slow demise began in 2022, according to the latest report. The Intel-powered model offered flexibility with its expansion slots, but the Apple Silicon Mac Pro had this functionality removed, not to mention that a cheaper Mac Studio was the final nail in the coffin.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-m2-ultra-mac-pro-only-allowed-for-audio-and-networking-card-expansion-which-are-additions-that-are-pretty-much-meaningless-to-the-majority-of-buyers\">The M2 Ultra Mac Pro only allowed for audio and networking card expansion, which are additions that are pretty much meaningless to the majority of buyers<\/h2>\n<p>In the latest edition of Mark Gurman\u2019s\u2018 Power On\u2019 newsletter, the Bloomberg correspondent reports that the Mac Pro\u2019s deficiencies had become impossible to ignore.\u2019 Its major selling point was the expansion slots that allowed for unique customizations, but Apple severed the majority of the functionality when it launched the M2 Ultra version, allowing for only audio and networking cards.<\/p>\n<p>A large percentage of buyers would benefit from additional GPU card installations, PCIe cards with NVMe SSD expansion, and lastly, RAM upgrades, which were exclusive to the Intel Mac Pro. With these options removed, consumers see little point in upgrading to the larger workstation, especially when it\u2019s significantly bulkier and more expensive than the Mac Studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mac Pro was a hard sell in other ways too. It was roughly three times larger in volume than the Mac Studio and cost $3,000 more \u2014 starting at a whopping $6,999. The approach to expansion also felt stuck in another era: There were PCIe slots for networking and audio cards, but no support for upgrading the components that matter most in modern workflows, like memory and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/apple-sealed-fate-of-the-mac-pro-back-in-2022\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Sealed The Mac Pro\u2019s Fate Back In 2022 By Reducing Expansion Slot Capabilities And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.wccftech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mac-Pro-buried.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[63,54],"class_list":["post-229017","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\/229017"}],"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=229017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229019,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229017\/revisions\/229019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}