Apple discontinues the Mac Professional

Apple has confirmed to Engadget that the Mac Professional, the desktop tower-shaped pc that was last updated in 2023, has been discontinued. As 9to5Mac notes, the pc now not seems within the lineup of Macs on Apple’s web site or in its storefront. Meaning at the very least for now, the Mac Studio is the Apple’s top-of-the-line skilled pc.

The present model of the Mac Professional was introduced in 2019, with a definite cheese-grater design, Intel chips and a bevy of easily-accessible growth slots. Apple launched the pc as a make-good for a number of years of inadequately assembly the efficiency wants {of professional} Mac customers, however its uncontested time on the prime of the corporate’s lineup was short-lived. A 12 months later in 2020, Apple started transitioning to its custom M-series Arm chips, proving Macs could possibly be extra highly effective and power-efficient by abandoning Intel totally.

Apple ultimately up to date the Mac Professional to the M2 Ultra with out updating the pc’s design, however by then the writing was on the wall. The far smaller Mac Studio, introduced in 2022, additionally supported the brand new chip, and it has been updated since then whereas the Mac Professional has languished. Bloomberg reported Apple was planning to retire the Mac Professional in November 2025, so it is not all that stunning the corporate quietly pulled the plug just a few months later.

Apple’s effort to cater to professionals, creatives and anybody with a bit of change to drop on a quick pc lives on via the Mac Studio, and the not too long ago introduced Studio Display XDR, itself a alternative for the Professional Show XDR Apple introduced for the 2019 Mac Professional. Now all the corporate must do is replace the Mac Studio with an M5 Max chip to make it probably the most “professional” pc Apple gives.

Replace, March 26, 6:25PM ET: Added affirmation from Apple that the Mac Professional has been discontinued.