Mac Pro Discontinued: Reflecting on 20 Years of Apple's Desktop Tower

Apple discontinued the Mac Pro, apple announced it has discontinued the Mac Pro and will not offer new configurations or future models.

Original Mac Pro Apple introduced the original Mac Pro, the original Mac Pro launched in August 2006 as the final Mac to transition from PowerPC to Intel.

2006 Mac Pro The 2006 Mac Pro included dual dual-core Xeon CPUs and specified memory, storage, and GPU options, the original model shipped with two dual-core Intel Xeon processors, up to 16GB RAM, up to 2TB storage, and an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT.

2013 Mac Pro Apple introduced the 2013 cylindrical Mac Pro, a redesigned cylindrical Mac Pro with a unified thermal core and Thunderbolt 2 ports was announced in June 2013.

Apple acknowledged thermal and expandability issues with the 2013 Mac Pro, apple said the 2013 model had thermal constraints and limited internal expandability and later apologized to Mac users.