{"id":229369,"date":"2026-03-30T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:20:11","slug":"apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/03\/30\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good\/\">Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro for Good<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/03\/30\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good\/\">https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/03\/30\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-30 17:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"tidbits.com\">tidbits.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After nearly 20 years, Apple has officially discontinued the Mac Pro, with no plans for future models, as first reported by Chance Miller at 9to5Mac. The move marks the end of an era for Apple\u2019s most expandable desktop, although the Mac Pro had become something of an anachronism.<\/p>\n<p>Early in its run, the Mac Pro was the choice of people like me who considered themselves professionals because they needed a bit more processing power, additional RAM to avoid swapping, faster (and less cluttered) internal storage, and support for multiple displays. I bought an early 2009 \u201ccheese grater\u201d Mac Pro for those reasons, paying $2279.<\/p>\n<p>My Mac Pro now serves as an end table alongside the original Power Mac G5 it replaced. Can you guess which is which?<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Apple introduced the cylindrical \u201ctrash can\u201d Mac Pro at $2999, abandoning the cheese grater\u2019s PCIe expandability for a compact design that relied on Thunderbolt 2 (see \u201cCan a Normal User Justify a Mac Pro?,\u201d 21 April 2014). The following year, the 27-inch iMac with Retina display arrived\u2014combining significant CPU power with an unbeatable screen, user-expandable RAM, and dual-display support\u2014capturing many users who had previously bought Mac Pros (see \u201cApple Launches iMac with Retina Display, Refreshes Mac mini,\u201d 16 October 2014 and \u201cThe Retina iMac: It\u2019s All about the Screen,\u201d 31 October 2014). The 27-inch iMac\u2019s popularity left the Mac Pro\u2019s audience limited to scientists and audio\/video professionals who specifically needed PCIe cards, which the trash can couldn\u2019t provide.<\/p>\n<p>Apple acknowledged its misstep with the trash-can design in 2017 (see \u201cMaca Culpa: Apple Admits Mac Pro Missteps and Promises More Transparency,\u201d 4 April 2017), but did not release the third-generation Mac Pro until 2019, which hearkened back to the cheese grater design, albeit with feet and optional wheels. That model was still Intel-based, but saw a massive price jump to $5999 (see \u201c2019 Mac&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/03\/30\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro for Good https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/03\/30\/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro-for-good\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-30 17:48:00 Source Domain: tidbits.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mac-Pro-and-Power-Mac-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[52,53,63],"class_list":["post-229369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-imac","tag-mac-mini","tag-mac-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229369"}],"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=229369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229371,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229369\/revisions\/229371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}