First look at the Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra: Boy, is it a big chip

Apple just announced a new Mac Pro, and we just got our first pictures of it. It doesn’t look much different – the 2019 cheese grater design is still here – but there’s a big ol’ M2 Ultra chip inside.

View photos in the gallery below. (An interesting tidbit: Apple took the heatsink off the chip!)

The upgraded Mac Studio is also available with the M2 Ultra chip, but the Mac Pro offers expandability options that are not available with the Studio. The Mac Pro also has plenty of ports, including six PCIe Gen 4 slots and eight Thunderbolt ports (six on the back and two on the top), two USB-A ports, an SD card slot on the front, two 10G Ethernet ports, and two USB 3.0 ports. , two HDMI ports and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The new Mac Pro is available to order on Monday, ahead of availability on June 13. It starts at $6,999.