Has Apple discontinued Thunderbolt on Mac Pro?

To be perfectly clear, Apple discontinued the Mac Pro yesterday. It has been removed from the store.

This has nothing to do with the Thunderbolt port specification. .

Thunderbolt is the ports used on the Macs and most current Macs still have some form of

Thunderbolt ports. Be it Thunderbolt 4 or Thunderbolt 5.

So no, Thunderbolt itself is not discontinued.

The Mac Pro tower computer type has been discontinued at this time.

No.

Mac Pro - Technical Specifications - Apple

Thunderbolt 3, 4, and 5 are all very important data AND display interfaces going forward. They all use the USB-C connector, additionally marked with the Thunderbolt symbol (a lightning bolt with a small arrowhead at the bottom).

if you own a Mac Pro 2013 model (the short dark cylinder) it features only ThunderBolt-2 ports, which have limited usefulness today. That model uses the Mini DisplayPort connector for its ThunderBolt-2 ports.

No, but they have discontinued support for Firewire which has become a topic of discussion on tech blogs.

Perhaps you are thinking about Firewire?

According to the specs for that Mac Pro, you should have the ability to connect three 5k displays or six Thunderbolt displays.

Mac Pro (Late 2013 - Technical Specs - Apple Support

What are the brands and the models of the three displays you are trying to connect?

a brody wrote:

As of today, all the major Mac news sites have indicated that it is discontinued.

"It" being the Mac Pro desktop minitower / rack-mount computer, based on the M2 Ultra, that Apple was selling for $6999 USD and up.

Unlike the Mac Pro (2019), which was a highly expandable minitower (modulo the lack of SATA drive bays), the Apple Silicon Mac Pro was basically a Mac Studio that could accept many PCIe cards, as long as they were not graphics cards. Mac Studios with Ultra processors started at $3999, not $6999. So if you did not need to use any non-graphics PCIe cards, why would you drop an extra $3000 USD on the Mac Pro?

I would say that Apple is betting that the vast majority of users – even high-end users – do not need PCIe card slots as long as Thunderbolt and/or USB4 are available. All current Macs except for the MacBook Neo support both Thunderbolt and USB4, including the optional USB4 40 Gbps transfer mode.

if you look closely at the diagram I posted previously, the HDMI port shares Thunderbolt Bus 0 -- the bottom two ThunderBolt ports.

Be sure you have distributed your displays across as many Thunderbolt Busses as possible.

if you are converting any interfaces to HDMI or DVI, that presents a Power problem, and you will have to use at least one ACTIVE, powered, adapter (slightly more expensive).

As of today, all the major Mac news sites have indicated that it is discontinued. While places like DV Warehouse, Otherworld Computing and Apple's Refubished section of its store may continue to hold it, and Mac OS may continue to run on it per its specs, the actual manufacture has apparently been discontinued.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ you may want to submit feedback, but read the unsolicited feedback note on the page. The Mac Studio and MacBook Pro both appear to be where most people are getting higher end Macs presently.

JCPMonteiro wrote:

I can use 3 monitor from thunderbolt not work. Is possible 2 and work. Any configuration to use 3 monitors ?

what model-year MacPro 42 lb silver tower or dark cylinder?

or what model-year MacBook Pro notebook computer and what built-in display size?

Apple menu > About this Mac

Please don't include your serial number, it attracts vermin.

I can use 3 monitor from thunderbolt not work. Is possible 2 and work. Any configuration to use 3 monitors ?

The model is Mac Pro 2013 - Cylinder. Configure: 12 Cores CPU - 2x D300 and 64GB ram

I try connect:

2X Thunderbolt and 1xHDMI port and work 2 monitor. not 3.