Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro, the desktop tower-shaped computer that was last updated in 2023. As 9to5Mac notes, the computer no longer appears in the lineup of Macs on Apple's website or in its storefront. Engadget has contacted Apple to confirm the Mac Pro has been discontinued, but all signs point to the Mac Studio being the company's new top-of-the-line professional computer.The current version of the Mac Pro was introduced in 2019, with a distinct cheese-grater design, Intel chips and a bevy of easily-accessible expansion slots. Apple released the computer as a make-good for several years of inadequately meeting the performance needs of professional Mac users, but its uncontested time at the top of the company's lineup was short-lived. A year later in 2020, Apple began transitioning to its custom M-series Arm chips, proving Macs could be more powerful and power-efficient by abandoning Intel entirely.Apple eventually updated the Mac Pro to the M2 Ultra without updating the co