The original Mac Pro is 19 years old today and people are still celebrating this old, favorite workhorse from a time when it was the clear top of Apple's range.The
The original Mac Pro is 19 years old today and people are still celebrating this old, favorite workhorse from a time when it was the clear top of Apple's range.

Perforated metal surface with two horizontal rectangular indents, viewed from below, casting shadows in a high-contrast, monochrome setting.
The distinctive 2006 Mac Pro

Forget looking back for a moment and instead look to the present. The current Mac Pro may have been the last Mac to transition to Apple Silicon, but it's here — and it almost doesn't matter.

Mac Pro has always been a niche machine because of it's extremely high specifications, for the time, and its correspondingly even more extremely high price. But it was a niche market that needed this power and was willing to pay for it, so the Mac Pro sold well. Well, it sold.


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