Apple says the new Mac Pro was designed with easy access to its components. There are stainless steel handles for modularity, all internal components mount to the frame with 360-degree components.

Mac Pro Specs

• 300 watts of power, runs fully unconstrained
• 2933MHz ECC memory, 12 DIMM slots
• 8 internal PCI slots, four double-wide slots, three single side slots
• Half-length slot populated with two TB3 ports, audio jack, two USB A ports, two 10Gb Ethernet ports
• Up to 1.5 terabytes of RAM
• Intel Xeon processor with up to 28 cores
• Apple designed a PCI connector with a second PCIe connector and power
• Multiple graphics options; can configure with options such as Radeon Pro Vega II
• Two GPUs connected via Infinity Fabric Link, 5X faster than PCI bust
• Apple built a brand new card called Afterburner for video editing, 6 billion pixels per second. 3 streams of 8K, 12 streams of 4K

Mac Pro Pricing

The new Mac Pro starts at $5999 for 8-core, 32GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. If you include all of the upgrade options, it can reach a $50,000 price point.

Mac Pro Release Date

The Mac Pro was released in December of 2019.

Back in the Intel days, theMac Pro was the computer many of us lusted over even if we had no possible justification for actually buying one. It was by far the most powerfulMac and the easiest to upgrade – not to mention one of the most beautiful machines the company ever made.

The 2023 Mac Pro was even more gorgeous than its predecessor, but with the radical new architecture ofApple Silicon, the writing was already on the wall …

In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter,Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple has “largely written off the Mac Pro.”

The Mac Prowas last updated in 2023 with the M2 Ultra chip, and there are no plans for a new update anytime soon.

Apple has long been rumored to have a new Mac Pro in development, and anew report suggests it will come with a more powerful chip than we’ve yet seen: the M4 Ultra.

The Apple silicon era has not been kind to the Mac Pro, and the target market for Apple’s most niche machine shrank even more today. However, it’s always darkest before the dawn, and that may be the case for this Mac workstation.

There’s currently very little reason to buy aMac Pro over aMac Studio configured with the M2 Ultra chip. That’s because Apple reportedly canceled plans for an M2 Extreme chip for the top-of-the-lineMac.

A new report suggests that history may be about to repeat itself, and that a planned Extreme chip for a future Mac Pro model may also now be in doubt. In the worst case, that could be no true new Mac Pro for years to come …

Apple is planning to upgrade its entire Mac lineup to the M4 chip over the next year. Today in a report about aredesign for the new Mac mini, Mark Gurman also revealed when to expect the M4 MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and Mac Studio.

In a new report today,Bloomberg offered information on what’s next for the Mac with the advent of M4 processors. The details about Apple’s plans for the future of the Mac Pro and Mac Studio specifically stood out to me. Here are the takeaways.

Most of those using a 2019Mac Pro should switch to theMac Studio, rather than the 2023 Mac Pro, arguesMacworld videographer and gamer Thiago Trevisan.

He argues that there’s only one reason to choose the current Mac Pro over the much more compact Mac Studio, despite the fact that the 2019 model was “the best workstation [he has] ever owned” …

With Apple having announceda new Mac Studio withthe exact same chipset, it seemed clear that the 2023Mac Pro market would be pretty small – if notdead on arrival.

Talking to pro Mac users with demanding needs, it seems that the 16-inchMacBook Pro has also cannibalized much of its market…

Say what you will about theexpansion limits of the first Apple silicon Mac Pro, but there’s no denying that Apple designed one helluva machine. While the M2 Ultra Mac Pro is virtually identical to the last Intel Xeon Mac Pro,MacGeneration has captured what it’s like to unbox the most expensive Mac in the lineup.

The first-ever Apple silicon-powered Mac Pro is having a weird moment, and it only just launched.

We last week highlightedthe four differences between the2023 Mac Pro and2023 Mac Studio – with the Mac Pro PCI card slots as the most significant of these. We also talked about what youcan’t plug into these slots. Apple has confirmed this, and listed the cards youcan use.

Of the seven slots, one is occupied by the Apple I/O card – though you can remove this if you don’t need any of the five ports this provides …

Back in 2019, Apple responded to Trump’s tariff threats by agreeing to make theMac Pro in the US – proudly bearing aDesigned by Apple in California, Assembled in USA label. The 2023 Mac Pro, however, has different wording.

The label instead now readsDesigned by Apple in California. Product of Thailand. Final assembly in the USA …

Apple announced three new Macs at WWDC 2023: a 15-inch MacBook Air, a new-generation Mac Studio, and the very first Mac Pro with an Apple Silicon chip. These Macs went on pre-order last week, and now the first orders are finally arriving to customers around the world.

The Apple Silicon Mac Pro is here, but it still won’t replace my custom-built PC for 3D rendering and graphics work at9to5Mac.

Apple has finally revealed their long-awaited Apple Silicon Mac Pro, and I won’t be buying one. With early rumors of an “M2 Extreme,” with double the computing power of the M2 Ultra, I was very excited about the Mac Pro and hoped it could finally replace my custom-built PC I use for 3D graphics at 9to5Mac.

Unfortunately,Apple stuck with the same M2 Ultra SOC from the Mac Studio, and besides adding PCI-E expandability, the computers are nearly identical. 

Back at the beginning of the year, I questioned whether the 2023Mac Pro would bedead on arrival – since it seemed Apple would have enormous difficulty in distinguishing it from other Macs powered by the same chips.

Apple has of course nowannounced the new Mac Pro, and while it does offer a handful of benefits the updated Mac Studiolaunched alongside it, very few people are going to buy one …

Does the Vision Proprice seem a little steep? It’s just a fraction of a maxed-out Apple silicon Mac Pro – which itself is a fraction of the highest-end 2019 Mac Pro price. There’s a reason for that, however.

Apple todayformally introduced macOS 14, alongsideiOS 17 andiPadOS 17 – and Apple is dropping support for almost all Intel Macs.

The company has provided a list of the Macs able to run macOS 14 …

Turns out John Ternus wasn’t kidding when hesaid “that leaves just one more product to go: Mac Pro, but that’s for another day”. Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, had just unveiled the Mac Studio, the most powerful Apple silicon machine at the time. The line served to reassure Mac Pro customers that the best was yet to come.

More than a year later, however, a Mac Pro running on Apple Silicon is still yet to come. The wait is compounded by the fact that the current Mac Pro running on Intel Xeon chips was introduced in 2019, and that machine was the long-awaitedcourse correction for the 2013 Mac Pro.

Apple is aware that many would like to see betterApple Watch battery life, says a senior exec, and is working on addressing the issue in various ways.

Apple’s VP of worldwide product marketing Bob Borchers made the comment in a new interview in which he also indirectly referenced the question of an Apple SiliconMac Pro …

We’re still waiting on the Mac Pro, but two things are a must if it’s going to live up to the high expectations set by its predecessors: (1) It must be the most powerful Mac, and (2) it must be the most customizable Mac.9to5mac has found a new “ComputeModule” device class in Apple’s iOS 16.4 developer disk image in the Xcode 16.4 beta release last week, and it could be the missing piece to Apple’s modular Mac Pro plans… or it could be a processor box for the Apple Reality Pro headset, or perhaps even a Raspberry Pi-like device. Let’s take a closer look.

Apple manufacturing inVietnam is set to expand, as the Cupertino company continues working on reducing its dependence onChina. The 2023Mac Pro looks likely to be one of the products assembled there, which would mean Apple dropping the “Made in USA” tag used for the 2019 model.

Foxconn already makesiPads andAirPods in Vietnam, but so far hasn’t beguniPhone orMac assembly in the country …

When Apple announced the transition of Macs powered by Intel processors to its own Apple Silicon in 2020, the company said it would complete the transition of the entire lineup in two years. However, that timeline has passed, and Apple still has one Intel Mac available in its lineup: the Mac Pro. Did Apple overestimate its ability to build a Mac Pro with an Apple Silicon chip?

While the Mac Studio has beenwell-received since its launch last spring, Apple may not launch an upgraded model in the foreseeable future.Bloomberg reports that the upcoming Mac Pro with Apple Silicon is “similar in functionality to the Mac Studio,” and it could be redundant for Apple to sell both the Mac Pro and the Mac Studio.