Blake Patterson

The Mac Pro has been discontinued.

"It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro now redirects to the Mac’s homepage, where all references have been removed.

Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware."

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/

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Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware - 9to5Mac

It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has...

9to5Mac
Mar 27 at 12:01amWeb
Show threadBlake Patterson1d ago

I had a Mac 128K (very) briefly in 1985, and an LC in 1991, but I went to the Mac - for good - in 1999 with the release of the Blue & White PowerMac G3. That was the pro Mac of the time, released soon after the Bondi Blue iMac made its debut. And I went there because Mac OS X was on the way. (I was a long-time NEXTSTEP fan at the time.)

B&W PowerMac G3 400, Quicksilver PowerMac G4 dual 800, PowerMac G5 dual 2.5 liquid cooled, and MacPro1,1 dual Xeon --- it was pro Macs for me over the years until they became aimed at a higher tier of u$er.

I am a Mac Studio user today, but I will always have very fond memories of those lovely and powerful pro Mac towers.

Pour one out for @siracusa tonight.

Show threadBlake Patterson1d ago
Today, my main Mac is a Mac Studio M1 Max.
Show threadScott VE3QBZ1d ago
@blakespot that screen is great! Love the aspect ratio
Show threadBlake Patterson20h ago

@scott It is the best screen I have ever used. It is the LG DualUp. It has been discontinued in the last year, sadly.

Just LAST NIGHT after elaborate eBay monitoring I setup, I purchased a used, flawless unit with just 400 hours usage -- as a backup for when this one dies!

I am so happy to have secured one! I always meant to grab a spare before it got EOLed, but I waited too long.

Most people don't want that aspect ratio, so I assumed it would not be a long-selling unit. And it's very complex, the size of glass manufacturers can and will use for displays -- this is a rare display. I use it rotated so I am using the 28 inch as 18:16 ( = 9:8 = 4.5:4 --- which is almost square).

I wrote about the display, here:

https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/08/4k-scaling-is-not-a-problem-on-modern-macs/

Show threadScott VE3QBZ18h ago
@blakespot your delight in it makes it even better :)
Show threadMixelsLab23h ago
Square monitor?! 😮
Show threadadacosta13h ago
@blakespot I'm planning to get the Studio in a couple years when my Windows laptop stops getting feature updates. Already have three 24 inch displays I will repurpose and a Apple Pro keyboard I found in a dump.
Show threadRyan Butterworth1d ago
@blakespot I remember looking at all of these photos on Flickr. 🥲
Show threadKoos Swart1d ago
@blakespot the nextstep acquisition was the reason for me to start using macs too
Show threadHank G ☑️15h ago
@blakespot @koosswart That's what brought me back to Macs too. I left at the end of the 68k era when I needed to use PCs for university. As soon as OSX PB came out I went out and bought a G4 Cube to start hacking with it. I only left Mac being my primary home computer when I built my own Linux rig in 2015/2016 (I can't remember which right now).
Show threadPaul Haddad 1d ago
@blakespot only the quad G5 was liquid cooled, no Xeons.
Show threadBlake Patterson1d ago
@paul Right, right -- I got it mixed around. I'll edit.
Show threadBlake Patterson1d ago
@paul Actually, it was a 2005 dual G5 - liquid cooled.
Show threadPaul Haddad 1d ago
@blakespot yeah some of the last G5s were liquid cool, I know the quads were, I wasn't quite sure about the dual. Not a ton of info since so many of them self destructed.
Show threadAlpacheez19h ago
@paul @blakespot IBM was sweating bullets trying to keep G5s cool toward the end of their run and get them crammed in a PowerBook. But they were more interested in developing the chip family for servers, so Apple had to make the Intel transition. Some great machines in the Intel Era, but not the 2019 "Can't innovate anymore my ass" Mac Pro. It was like they forgot that the G4 Cube struggled with heat (though wasn't it passively cooled!?) and said "Let's do it again anyway"
Show threadK. Langoso 🇧🇷🔴🐷🇳🇬🏡😷1d ago

@blakespot @siracusa The iMacs made me perk up and pay a lot of attention. They were lovely.

The B&W G3 PowerMac running AfterEffects blew. My. Mind.

Coolest tower ever.

Show threadJoaquin Durand1d ago
@blakespot @siracusa Wow! a TI CC-40. I loved that thing.
Show threadKadin20h ago

@blakespot @siracusa I've also been working my way through tower Macs for the past 20+ years, and it's weird to think that my next "big desktop" won't be one (even after waiting the ~5 years that it now takes for them to fall into my price range on the used market).

My first tower Mac—after a series of "pizza boxes" that started with a Quadra 605—was a Performa 6400.

It was a wonderfully upgradeable machine at the time. It had room for a second hard drive, external SCSI (scanner, CD-R drive), internal slot for a modem, TV tuner slot, and two PCI slots.

I loved that machine. IIRC the reason I upgraded was that it wouldn't run Mac OS X when the Public Beta came out.
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