After two years, the Mac Pro was “updated” today, sort of: now we can choose slightly faster two-year-old CPUs at the top end, and the other two-year-old CPU options are cheaper now.

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The message is clear: Apple doesn’t give a shit about the Mac Pro.¹

Marco Arment is pissed.

Many Apple observers also wonder if Apple thinks that desktop computers are dead, since not a word was said about the iMac and Mac Pro. An executive did assure me, however, that new models and new designs are under way, probably for release in 2013.²

But David Pogue is reassured.

As I wrote in my Follow WWDC from a distance post, my only real wish was a new Mac Pro. I wouldn’t call the updated model ”new” in any way, but I still have faith. (And, fortunately, I’m not in pressing need for one right now.)