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Apple Discontinued These 15 Products This Week

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Amid its introduction of 10 new devices this week, Apple discontinued over a dozen of its products dating back to 2019.

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Apple this week announced the iPhone 17e, refreshed iPad Air models with the M4 chip, MacBook Air models with the M5 chip, MacBook Pro models with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, two new Studio Display models, and the all-new MacBook Neo. Simultaneously, these 15 products were removed from Apple's lineup to make way for the new additions:

  • iPhone 16e with A18 (2025)
  • 11-inch iPad Air with M3 (2025)
  • 13-inch iPad Air with M3 (2025)
  • 13-inch MacBook Air with M4 (2025)
  • 15-inch MacBook Air with M4 (2025)
  • 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 and 512GB storage (2025)
  • 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro (2024)
  • 16-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro (2024)
  • 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Max (2024)
  • 16-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Max (2024)
  • Mac Studio with M3 Ultra and 512GB memory (2025)
  • Studio Display with A13 Bionic (2022)
  • Pro Display XDR (2019)
  • Pro Stand for Pro Display XDR (2019)
  • Pro Display XDR VESA Mount Adapter (2019)

Many of these devices are already seeing substantial discounts with third-party retailers. All of the newly announced devices became available to pre-order on Wednesday, March 4, with the entire lineup scheduled to launch and begin arriving to customers on Wednesday, March 11.

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omenatarhuri said:
Mac Studio certainly stands out here. Wonder what happened there…
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I guess stock is low and they obviously don't make M3 chips anymore. Also who is buying that machine in 2026 with M5 out and the M5 ultra being rumored.

appleinsider.com

M5 Max Geekbench scores show impressive results, beating out M3 Ultra CPU, matching GPU

The M5 Max is Apple's latest high-end chipset built for the MacBook Pro, and early benchmark results show it easily competes with the M3 Ultra.
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omenatarhuri said:
Mac Studio certainly stands out here. Wonder what happened there…
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I'm confused, the M3 Max variant of the Studio has been discontinued a second time?

The M4 Max is still out there, as long as there's no M5 Max to replace it.

But the 512 GB of RAM option is likely due to the low availabilioty of memory chips and insane prices (even for Apple memory upgrade prices).

Edit: the M4 Max variant is delayed when ordering it seems, but the option still exists - could be a memory chip-induced delay or the M5 update soon?

Edit 2: silly me, there was never a M3 Max version of the Studio, nevermind.
 
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Why anyone would even consider buying an Ultra when they know full well that nest years Max will match or come close to matching it at a fraction of the cost is beyond me, I guess bragging rights have no price ceiling
 
Glad I got a 16" M4 pro last September. What I really wanted was the bigger screen and had to take the processor and other upgrades to get it. But due to the M5 rumors they were selling at a discount.

Given the 16" MBP prices went up, but the form factor didn't change, and the M4 Pro is super overkill for me, I'm glad I moved when I did.
 
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omenatarhuri said:
Mac Studio certainly stands out here. Wonder what happened there…
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You can still get the Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra… they just took away the option for 512GB of unified memory. The way it's listed is a little confusing.

Plus, as others have pointed out, the wrong sizes for MacBook Pros. They've fixed some of them, but I'm still seeing a "13-inch MacBook Pro with M5 and 512GB storage" on the list. That should say 14". And again, the computer was not discontinued… they just bumped the base storage up to 1TB.
 
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Assuming we'll start seeing some pretty good prices for these discontinued items.
If you're not in the bleeding edge crowd, I'm sure this is a good time to pick up last year's top-of-the-line for a lot less.
 
rikki_t said:
Why anyone would even consider buying an Ultra when they know full well that nest years Max will match or come close to matching it at a fraction of the cost is beyond me, I guess bragging rights have no price ceiling
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Those folks spending for 500 GB of RAM are not doing it for "bragging rights." Folks spend that kind of money to do real work, mostly driving local LLMs.

And we do not "know full well that nest years Max will match or come close to matching it at a fraction of the cost." Because the huge RAM is an essential part of the equation, and with skyrocketing memory prices we do not know that Apple will again offer it.

I am not suggesting that Apple will not soon offer an M5 Studio Ultra with even more than 500 GB RAM; IDK. I am just saying that we do not know, and users that need it now need it now.

I am surprised that the fat Studio Ultra was discontinued. My guess is is that RAM costs have risen so much that Apple decided that pricing a 500 GB RAM Ultra would be so high as to be too rude even for Apple. But we will see; maybe it will just quickly get replaced with an upgrade, but I doubt it.
 
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lazyrighteye said:
Assuming we'll start seeing some pretty good prices for these discontinued items.
If you're not in the bleeding edge crowd, I'm sure this is a good time to pick up last year's top-of-the-line for a lot less.
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Some items like the ATV are four years old. Buying the new version of an item that only gets upgraded every four years does not qualify those buyers as being "in the bleeding edge crowd."

And this is tech with its evolving standards, protocols and hardware, so IMO referring to anything that is four years old as "last year's top-of-the-line" is misleading, even though it is true. IMO more accurate would be to call it "2022's top-of-the-line."
 
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MacRumors said:
Mac Studio with M3 Ultra and 512GB memory (2025)
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Any word whether Apple will still fulfill the backorders, or did they say "Sorry, discontinued" and cancel?

(Not currently in the market for that kind of machine, but wondering how Apple's handling this.)
 
rikki_t said:
Why anyone would even consider buying an Ultra when they know full well that nest years Max will match or come close to matching it at a fraction of the cost is beyond me, I guess bragging rights have no price ceiling
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Does the work (as in you get paid for it) in the next year pay for the machine? If so, you buy it. It's a business call, it has nothing to do with bragging.

Ever since the Apple 1 shipped there has always been something better coming down the pipeline. The only time I can think of that was a bit confusing was 2006 when the choices were the soon to be obsolete 64 bit G5 or the first wave of 32 bit only Intel Core Duo machines.

Edit: I looked it up, that last $3300 2.5 GHz G5 went from top of the line in October 2005 to doorstop in August 2006.

So quit your complaining. 🙂
 
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omenatarhuri said:
Mac Studio certainly stands out here. Wonder what happened there…
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They're getting ready to launch Studio Neo with a binned M3 Max. "You mean a Mac mini," you might say, but no...Studio Neo includes USB-A, doesn't support an external monitor and comes in a stunning new "spilled lemonade" colorway. Starts at $100 less than this studio used too.

Hello. Consequences will never be the same.

I kid, I kid.
 
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