Apple’s Mac Pro, the California company’s flagship desktop computer model, has returned to stores shelves in Europe this month after being absent from the marketplace for the better part of a year. According to a brief report from Mashable, European buyers will be able to start getting their hands on Apple’s latest computer beginning on Tuesday, January 14th. The computer is expected to sell for a price tag of either £2,499.00 (for the quad-core processor version) or £3,299.00 (for the six-core incarnation).

For Europe, the release of the Mac Pro will be an anticipated return for Apple desktops, after the previous version of the Mac Pro was pulled from European store shelves back in March of last year. According to reports from just prior to the discontinuation, Apple opted to pull the Mac Pro from the European marketplace after a new regulatory amendment went into effect that essentially rendered the computer illegal throughout the European Union (EU).

The new EU regulation, which officially became law on March 1st, 2013, would have required Apple to modify its Mac Pro in order to make slight alterations to its electrical ports and its “fan shielding.” Rather than spend money to make the modifications and reach EU compliancy, Apple opted to entirely pull the Mac Pro from European shelves for the majority of 2013.

At the time, there were a few theories as to what the pull meant for the Mac Pro. Some insisted that Apple was finally showing its loss of faith for the Mac Pro, which is a relatively unpopular product compared to Apple laptops like the Macbook Pro and the Macbook Air. The Mac Pro’s exorbitant cost and sprawling size have made it a very niche item within the computer marketplace, even among the dying breed of full-sized desktops. Apple rarely markets the Mac Pro and doesn’t release updates on the product with the regularity of its other items. Indeed, many signs pointed to a limited lifespan for Apple’s desktop computer.

The other theory, however, proved to be the correct one. Far from presaging the death knell of the Mac Pro, some Apple specialists argued that Apple’s decision to pull the Mac Pro from shelves in Europe rather than pour money into getting it up to compliancy indicated that the company was already working on a new Mac Pro. Since a new Mac Pro was already in the product pipeline, Apple had little issue making the alterations required to reach EU compliancy, and saved the money it would have spent on recalling older computers and modifying them back in March.