The ‘trash can’ form factor Mac Pro was quickly abandoned after Apple’s hardware ran into thermal constraints and performance limitations, forcing the company to return to the tower chassis that offered Intel’s Xeon processors, and afterwards, completed the transition to the technology giant’s in-house silicon by getting kitted out with the M2 Ultra . However, what forced Apple to get into the workstation category of computers to hold a decisive advantage over the competition? It was its first Mac Pro, which is now 19 years old at this point, and offered some of the most powerful internals at the time. Fast forward to 2025, and you still get some exceptional specifications, but at the cost of limited upgradability.

The first Mac Pro was also the beginning of Apple’s transition from Powe

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