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In abstract:
- Apple has formally discontinued the Mac Professional tower laptop after 18 years, with Macworld confirming its elimination from Apple.com.
- The corporate views the Mac Studio because the superior substitute for skilled workstation efficiency and high-end computing duties.
- The ultimate Mac Professional obtained its final replace in 2023 with an M2 Extremely chip, although refurbished items stay obtainable by means of Apple’s retailer.
Whereas Apple is celebrating its upcoming fiftieth anniversary and appears ahead to a different 50 years, there’s one main product that has come to an finish. The Mac Professional, as confirmed by Apple with Macworld, has been discontinued by the corporate. The Mac Professional part of Apple.com has been faraway from the web site, although Mac Execs are nonetheless obtainable by means of Apple’s Licensed Refurbished retailer.
It’s a quiet finish for a product that was final up to date in 2023 with an M2 Extremely chip. But it surely wasn’t a shock; Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported final November that Apple had “largely written off” the Mac Professional, believing that the Mac Studio is a greater product. Why it took so lengthy to lastly pull the plug isn’t clear, however Apple hadn’t completed any updates to the {hardware} for the reason that M2 Extremely improve practically three years in the past.
Apple has been rumored to have an replace to the Mac Studio within the works, with an announcement possible between now and WWDC26. Apple positions the Mac Studio because the machine for manufacturing environments that demand workstation efficiency, and seemingly feels assured that the Mac Studio can fill the Mac Professional’s sneakers.
The discontinuation of the Mac Professional leaves Apple with no modular tower laptop, but it surely’s been transferring away from these varieties of machines for some time. In response to those that assume an expandable tower is a gaping gap within the Mac lineup, Apple usually counters with confidence that its silicon could make up for the necessity for enlargement playing cards, and Thunderbolt can deal with storage wants simply as properly.
Apple launched the Mac Professional in 2006, the identical time Apple accomplished its transition from Motorola chips to Intel. It had two 64-bit, Intel Xeon 5100 (Woodcrest) processors, 4 onerous drive bays, eight RAM slots, and began at $2,499.
