Though Apple has made rapid progress in outfitting most of its Mac lineup with its own silicon, several models are still using Intel processors. The most notable is the Mac Pro, which sits atop Apple’s lineup in cost and performance. The new Mac Pro with Apple silicon should have already been released by now, but it’s obviously delayed. Now a new report says the M2-powered Mac Pro is indeed coming soon, but it will include some big caveats. The most notable is due to its on-package memory, its RAM will not be upgradeable. It will also reportedly use the exact same chassis as the current model, which was introduced in 2019. This is certain to disappoint a lot of Apple’s customers.
News of Apple’s latest plans comes from the typically reliable Mark Gurman from Bloomberg (via 9to5mac). He’s been covering Apple for many years and has many sources inside the company. In the newest issue of his Power On newsletter, he says the M2-powered Mac Pro will essentially offer the same hardware as an updated Mac Studio. It will have an M2 Ultra SoC inside, which will fuse two M2 Max chips into a single package. This is the situation because Apple reportedly cancelled the M2 “Extreme” chip it was going to use. This monster chip would have used four Max SoCs together. It was supposedly cancelled due to the fact that it would result in a Mac Pro with a starting price of around $10,000. It was also difficult to engineer, and the cost wasn’t seen as being worth it for a niche audience.
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