M3 Ultra gives Mac Studio a speed boost, but not the Mac Pro

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. A brief history of the Mac Pro It’s hard to be a Mac Pro. The product name dates back to 2006 when the Power Mac G5, equipped with a PowerPC chip, was replaced with a desktop tower of the same design that used an Intel processor. In 2013, Apple released the much smaller cylindrical Mac Pro that proved to be as cursed as it was beautiful. Apple returned to a more machined version of desktop tower design in 2019, throwing away the so-called trash can design for an approach that valued both form and function. Paired with the 6K Retina resolution 32-inch Apple Pro Display XDR, the Mac Pro returned to its throne as the most powerful machine in Apple’s lineup. Apple even sold storage and GPU upgrades that could be added separately. A year later, the Apple sil ... Read full article.