Mac Pro Turns 20 Today, Five Months After Apple Killed It

The Mac Pro is dead. 20 years after its glitzy launch, what went wrong with Apple’s ultimate flagship computer?

Apple unveiled the very first Mac Pro 20 years ago today, dubbing the computer “the ideal system for the most demanding user.” It was the last Mac to make the transition to Intel processors and put the final nail in the coffin of its PowerPC predecessor — quite a statement at the time. In fact, the Mac Pro was so powerful that it doubled the performance of the Power Mac G5 that had launched less than a year earlier. Talk about earning that “Pro”…

Mac Pro Turns 20 Today, Five Months After Apple Killed It

Apple announced the original Mac Pro 20 years ago today, with the anniversary landing five months after the company discontinued the machine for good. On...

Apple revealed the first Mac Pro 20 years ago today — its Intel Xeon-powered flagship desktop took the reins from the Power Mac G5

20 years ago today, Steve Jobs took to the Apple WWDC stage to unveil the first-ever Mac Pro desktop computer. As well as marking the beginning of a whole new Mac line, this was the first Apple workstation desktop to transition from PowerPC to Intel x86. Apple had already introduced Intel-powered versions of its iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook at the start of 2006; now it was replacing the mighty PowerMac G5 tower. While readers might remember most …

Is the pro Mac dead?

Macworld After nearly 20 years, on a seemingly random Thursday, Apple finally pulled the plug on the Mac Pro. Apple later confirmed that it will no longer be selling its high-end Mac tower and has “no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.” The Mac Pro, once a symbol of Apple’s dominance in the PC workstation space, is well and truly dead. Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking: the Mac Studio exists and is aimed squarely at many of the same us…