It might be time for Apple to throw in the towel on the Mac Pro

Enlarge / Apple's 2019 Mac Pro, a trypophobe's nightmare. (credit: Apple)

The Mac Pro is one of the few remaining Intel Macs with no Apple Silicon replacement ready to go, even though we're a little past the two-year deadline that CEO Tim Cook originally set for the transition in summer 2020 (and to be fair, it has been a hard-to-predict couple of years).

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple continues to work on a new version of the Mac Pro, alongside other as-yet-unreplaced Intel Macs like the higher-end Mac mini and the 27-inch iMac, but that a planned "M2 Extreme" chip that would have powered the Apple Silicon Mac Pro has "likely" been canceled.

The Extreme would have strapped two M2 Ultra chips together, in the same way that the current M1 Ultra is a pair of interconnected M1 Max chips, but as of this writing, Apple supposedly plans to ship the new Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra chip inside and focus on "easy expandability for additional memory, storage, and other components" to help the Mac Pro stand out from the existing Mac Studio.

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