Apple Confirms Mac Pro Is Dead, No Future Models Planned

[BSDnostalgia]

I didn't know anything about Mac's back then. But I sure did know how to tweak XP to run like a beast.😉

No offense, but, my memories of XP were from a different angle than yours. I recall XP enthusiasts telling me that every app from every version of Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT, and Windows 2000 would run on XP. Wasn't it great! And while that was no doubt true, it seemed like every vulnerability of every version of ... was also present. XP was a security nightmare. From my standpoint, the only good thing that came out of it was Bill Gates' personal discovery that security actually was important, which led to his 2006 memo and the push to make "Windows" more secure. And, that led to Vista, which everyone hated because a lot of insecure stuff stopped working, and everyone complained about it. What a mess. Thanks for reminding me. 😉

 

[Omega Mac]

Watch, now Apple will release a Mac Studio Pro. Only after everyone buys the Mac Studio M5 first though.

It's funny I forgot I predicted the end of the Mac Pro (but missed that actual news) and the Mac Studio Pro line naming convention conjunction (well still waiting) but it's too obvious right?

Mac Pro Reportedly on 'Back Burner' and 'Largely Written Off' at Apple

I get all the comments that the Studio is the defacto pro in this topic but I can not help but see a Mac Studio Pro on the horizon when the Mac Pro inventory clears out. - Mac Mini - Mac Studio - Mac Studio Pro The Mac Studio Pro chassis can increase in height, if it is not pro enough now...

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Also reminds me of the time back in 2016 when I spotted Johny and his nascent Apple silicon chip years before it was launched, and was first released via the Mac Mini like the prototypes.

Mac Minis with ARM Prototype chips.

Are these the most important Mac's you have never heard of until now? Nestled among one fascinating insight after the next is a passing observation. Is this a glimpse of the next major silicon pivot in the Apple story? In case it's not clear. This article focused primarily on the development...

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I'm getting that feeling, that on the cusp excited more than I have in a long time.

Could be great things coming, that's really all I'm sayin' some Christmas come early maybe! (shipping then), ah a some mid-summer festive cheer would give structure to piggy financing plans.

 

[Omega Mac]

The Mac Pro should have died back in 2019. But it was always a small, vocal and admittedly pretty influential group of users who just couldn’t let go.

Apple Silicon just further reinforced this reality that the Mac Pro has no future in Apple’s PC roadmap. It’s the very antithesis of everything the Mac Pro stood for.

You really have to wonder what was going through Apple’s mind when they released the Mac Pro a year before announcing the M1 chip.

Simple, they knew they were leaving the transition of the high-end to the very end, and they had to at least cater to that loyal top end group while they got through the meat andpoatoes of the main market segments transition, that would IMHO inform and fold into the very last but final high-end transition, or heres hoping.

Hindsight is easy, foresight not, but Apple and the CEO privy and in control of the general roadmap, that's their foresight, and within that will react to market and industry conditions, yea we want to know everything now, but if we knew everything poor old MacRumors wouldn't have a business model either, nor Apple and what fun would that be?

As I'm typing, I'm thinking this might all line up, and informs us as to why Tim picked around about now to go, he may be keeping that one last high for his leaving and WWDC 2026 may be that moment he reveals his final reveal, and why wound't you want ot go out and leave the user base excited and enthusiastic, for September best of luck Ternus!

Tim still gong to be there so he's still not he team and you want ot go out wining. Well that's my 2c, but you have to keep people keen.

 

[mode11]

they knew they were leaving the transition of the high-end to the very end, and they had to at least cater to that loyal top end group while they got through the meat andpoatoes of the main market segments transition

I think that may have some truth. One last blow-out Intel model, to carry the high end until a second or third generation Ultra could offer sufficient GPU grunt and RAM capacity to let AS fully take over. And an insurance policy, in case there were yield or other issues with TSMC's advanced new interconnect. If they couldn't have made the Ultra work, the Mac would have been stuck with the Max at the top end. Great laptop chip though it is, it would be laughable next to top end RTX cards and Threadrippers, killing the platform's credibility at the high end.

As it happened, things worked out OK, so Apple did their usual thing and left the MP to wither on the vine. Plus, they wanted everyone to transition to AS, and supporting the 7,1 with the latest AMD GPUs would have just made the Ultra look bad in comparison. Easier to sit on their hands and wait people out.

I wouldn't hold out any hope of a reborn Mac Pro at WWDC. They dropped the M2U MP with a nondescript press release earlier in the year, after ignoring it for years. I don't think Tim gives a stuff about it, and hardly think he'd expect that to get roars of applause as his swansong. Tim's stepping down as CEO because frankly it's overdue, and he has more money than he can possibly spend in his remaining years.

 

[Omega Mac]

I wouldn't hold out any hope of a reborn Mac Pro at WWDC. They dropped the M2U MP with a nondescript press release earlier in the year, after ignoring it for years. I don't think Tim gives a stuff about it, and hardly think he'd expect that to get roars of applause as his swansong. Tim's stepping down as CEO because frankly it's overdue, and he has more money than he can possibly spend in his remaining years.

That might be so but there is no way he was not going to have deeply considered the timing and exit. I would wager also he would have computed in his supply chain way the stiffing industrial winds with his high level inside track, not entirely to be gone when ti get harder but maybe he's side stepping, thus removing the multi-dimeinsal challenge a CEO faces, so he can best revert back to core competency (when it's needed maybe more than ever) giving ultra focus in this area of renown and reputation, i.e. supply chain management (without wearing the badge) and

I might be passing too much of a noble instinct, but it would be a huge support for Ternus who can push hardware vision further knowing he has a good support behind him, and I doubt Tim would be happy switching off, dialling back to SCM co-pilot / old-guard would probably be an acceptable pace and optimum configuration for Apple right now.

 

[mode11]

Cook is effectively retiring; he's just staying on as an elder statesman. Partly in an advisory / transition role, and partly because his hands are already dirty from dealing with the current administration. Continuing to do so keeps Ternus's clean. I highly doubt Tim is looking to resume his old role, managing Apple's supply chains.