We Bid a Fond Farewell to the Apple Cheesegrater - DTNS 5235
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Anthropic leaks details on a powerful model that aims to beat Opus called Claude Mythos, and the Sony PS5 is about to get a lot more expensive.
Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, March 27th, 2026. |
| 0:08.8 | We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context in all of it and help each other understand. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, I want to understand why Apple discontinued the Mac Pro, but we're going to bid it a fond farewell. |
| 0:19.5 | Oh, yes, we are. I'm Jason Howell. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Tom Merritt. |
| 0:22.5 | Let's start with what you need to know with the big story. |
| 0:28.2 | The big story, like the big Mac, the really big one. |
| 0:32.2 | McDonald's New. |
| 0:32.8 | That's what we're talking about. |
| 0:33.8 | Yes, Apple ended the Mac Pro line, confirming to 9 to 5 Mac that the tower is now discontinued |
| 0:40.8 | with no plans for a future Mac Pro or Mac Pro hardware. |
| 0:45.6 | The machine already been pulled from Apple's online store. |
| 0:50.2 | Former buy page, if you go there, it now points to the general Mac home page. |
| 0:54.0 | So it's like they've |
| 0:54.6 | erased it from existence at this point. You will, of course, find the Mac Studio, which was basically |
| 1:00.2 | the next Mac Pro essentially and has been for a little while, just a whole lot smaller, you know, |
| 1:06.0 | along with the 24-inch IMAX, the Mac Mini. You're just not going to find the Mac Pro anywhere on the Apple's |
| 1:12.0 | side, apparently. The Mac Pro launched back in 2006. I remember it fondly. Apple's most |
| 1:18.4 | powerful successor to the Power Mac G5, which, hey, I also had that one. It was long seen |
| 1:24.9 | as the ultimate example of a professional Mac Mac and it just really became a fixture. |
| 1:30.8 | You'd see it in studios, agencies, production houses, music studios, all kinds, you name it. |
| 1:37.3 | Definitely a large machine, if you remember, metallic. |
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