Apple Scrapped Mac Pro Revival, Canceled M2 and M3 Extreme Chips

Apple reportedly canceled M2 Extreme and M3 Extreme chips for the Mac Pro before discontinuing the desktop and shifting focus to Mac Studio.

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« M3 Extreme » : la puce surpuissante d’Apple dont personne n’avait besoin

Apple aurait conçu deux générations de puces « Extreme » pour son Mac Pro, deux fois plus puissantes que l'Ultra, avant de les abandonner faute de demande. Le Mac Pro est mort depuis. L'IA est en train de montrer que c'était peut-être une erreur.

Apple Begins Rosetta’s Final Phase as Intel Mac Era Winds Down

Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe is the last major release for Intel Macs, with Rosetta support continuing through macOS 27 before narrowing.

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Mac Pro Is Dead: Apple Shuts Down Its High-End Desktop Line

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro, ending its high-end desktop line as it shifts focus to the Mac Studio and Apple silicon-powered systems.

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Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop

After more than a decade of flirting with the idea, Apple has finally discontinued the Mac Pro tower. The company confirmed to 9to5Mac that the latest Mac Pro iteration—an M2 Ultra model first released in mid-2023—would be its last, at least for the time being. There are no plans to make another Mac Pro.

The discontinuation of the Mac Pro should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Reporting from late last year suggested that the Mac Pro had been put "on the back burner," but the desktop has clearly been in danger of falling off the stove since at least the mid-2010s, during the six-year period where the controversial cylindrical "trash can" Mac Pro design languished without updates.

Apple briefly rededicated itself to its pro desktop in 2019 with a new design that hearkened back to more versatile, upgradeable, be-handled versions of the Power Mac and Mac Pro. But by the time it was updated again with M2 Ultra four years later, it was already clear that the idea of a huge and expandable Mac desktop was out of step with the Apple Silicon era. The desktop's demise confirms that, at least in Apple's estimation, the Mac Pro was trying to fill a niche that no longer exists.

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