Apple Silicon is the Mac Pro upgrade you’ve been waiting for

Apple’s serious modular professional desktop is getting its first real update of 2019, featuring the new M2 Ultra chip announced at WWDC 2023.

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The Ultra is a pair of M2 Max chips linked together, providing a 24-core CPU, 76-core GPU and 32-core Neural Engine. It also means two HDMI 2.1 ports – first arriving for Apple in the MacBook 16 – and dual 10Gb Ethernet connections. It can support up to 192GB of combined storage and has eight Thunderbolt 4 ports on the front.

In practice, this is a much higher performance over the aging Xeon in the old version, which means support for more high-resolution displays. This also means support for more modern standards, such as PCI Gen 4, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. Pricing for the upgraded Mac Pro will start at $6,999.

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