Do we really need a Mac Pro at this point?

With all the power of the M3 Pro and M3 Max in the latest MacBook Pros and the availability of the Mac Studio, do we really need an updated Mac Pro at this point?

In a September Power On newsletter, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman talked about the M3 processor path he thinks Apple has planned. And he thinks that an M3 Ultra Mac Pro may never see the light of day. 

He said an M3 Ultra for (possibly) a Mac Studio and Mac Pro, it will feature 32 CPU cores and 64 GPU cores for the base model and 32 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores for the top model. In his report, Gurman forecast that Macs with the ‌M3‌ Ultra chip, such as a next-generation Mac Studio and Mac Pro , may not arrive until the end of 2024 at the earliest “if Apple continues making those.”

The Sellers Research Group (that’s me) thinks we won’t see another version of the Mac Pro. Why? The Mac Studio is generally cheaper to purchase and offers mosts of the advantages of a Mac Pro. And, for many professionals, a MacBook Pro with a M3 Max will offer power enough.