Apple’s Mac Pro is a dead end. Mac Studio is the high-end Mac future now.

Apple’s Mac Studio (left) and Mac Pro, the two most powerful Macs ever made.
Apple has effectively abandoned the Mac Pro as a going concern. Inside the company, the prevailing view is that the Mac Studio has fully supplanted it—serving as both the current flagship and the long-term cornerstone of Apple’s high-end desktop lineup for professionals.
In 2019, Apple unveiled a ground-up redesign of the Mac Pro — a towering, cheese-grater-styled aluminum beast that deliberately echoed the iconic Power Mac G5 look from the mid-2000s. At launch, the company loudly promised that this machine would receive regular updates and stay a cornerstone of the professional Mac lineup for years to come. That commitment lasted about as long as the hype cycle.
Mark Gurman fro Bloomberg News:
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[Mac Studio] received the M3 Ultra chip earlier this year while the Mac Pro stayed put.
Now here’s the bad news: That doesn’t look set to change anytime soon. There’s no longer an M4 Ultra in the works (a Mac Pro to support it was also nixed), and the next high-end desktop chip will be the M5 Ultra. So far, Apple is only focused on a new Mac Studio for the processor. That suggests the Mac Pro won’t be updated in 2026 in a significant way.
From what I’ve heard inside the company, Apple has largely written off the Mac Pro. The sentiment internally is that the Mac Studio now represents both the present and future of Apple’s professional desktop strategy.

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MacDailyNews Take: Bring on the M5 Ultra Mac Studio and rename it “Mac Pro.”

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