Yesterday Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is officially discontinued. I don’t think anybody who’s been paying attention to this can be surprised. The writing was on the wall with the last Mac Pro update, which was twice the price and just slightly better than the then released Mac Studio M2 Ultra.

In the early, heady days of Apple Silicon and the M1 chip, there was a rumor that there was an even more powerful chip in the works, something along the lines of twice as powerful as the Ultra chips going into the high-end Mac Studio. That never came to fruition. In the intervening years, we’ve heard that chip still may come out, but in a future iteration of the M-series chips.

In my mind, the cancellation of the Mac Pro means that they’ve just given up on that. The most powerful Mac you’re going to be able to buy in the foreseeable future will be the upper-end Mac Studio.