Apple has confirmed to Engadget that the Mac Professional, the desktop tower-shaped laptop that was final up to date in 2023, has been discontinued. As 9to5Mac notes, the pc now not seems within the lineup of Macs on Apple’s web site or in its storefront. Which means not less than for now, the Mac Studio is the Apple’s top-of-the-line skilled laptop.
The present model of the Mac Professional was launched in 2019, with a definite cheese-grater design, Intel chips and a bevy of easily-accessible enlargement slots. Apple launched the pc as a make-good for a number of years of inadequately assembly the efficiency wants {of professional} Mac customers, however its uncontested time on the high of the corporate’s lineup was short-lived. A 12 months later in 2020, Apple started transitioning to its customized M-series Arm chips, proving Macs could possibly be extra highly effective and power-efficient by abandoning Intel totally.
Apple ultimately up to date the Mac Professional to the M2 Extremely with out updating the pc’s design, however by then the writing was on the wall. The far smaller Mac Studio, launched in 2022, additionally supported the brand new chip, and it has been up to date since then whereas the Mac Professional has languished. Bloomberg reported Apple was planning to retire the Mac Professional in November 2025, so it isn’t all that stunning the corporate quietly pulled the plug only some months later.
Apple’s effort to cater to professionals, creatives and anybody with a bit of change to drop on a quick laptop lives on by the Mac Studio, and the just lately introduced Studio Show XDR, itself a substitute for the Professional Show XDR Apple introduced for the 2019 Mac Professional. Now all the corporate must do is replace the Mac Studio with an M5 Max chip to make it probably the most “professional” laptop Apple gives.
Replace, March 26, 6:25PM ET: Added affirmation from Apple that the Mac Professional has been discontinued.
