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Alleged New Part Numbers Suggest Over a Dozen New Mac Models Coming at WWDC [Updated]

comatory said:
This keynote will be just slight hardware refresh with AC wifi and new chipsets containing USB3, same construction just bumped specs. It will be a out iOS and ML mostly. That Retina rumor doesnt seem to be happening,not yet.
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And you know this how?
 
Sharky II said:
hey, it's like the good old days - when there were rumours about actual macintosh computers. cool
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Oh yeah!

charlituna said:
They won't. This list, if true, just adds to the idea that they won't be keynoting hardware. It's 90 minutes.
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Agree with that. But I think that some key products will be mentioned at the beginning or the end of the keynote. This years WWDC is the right time to mention Mac computers again after such a long time. There are so many iOS users who don't know anything about Macintosh so Apple uses opportunities like this years WWDC to change it.

We'll see next week... I am really excited. The last keynotes were just... I don't know... too 'Macless'. :)
 
comatory said:
Exactly. I mean i'd love to see redesigned computers just as anyone with all the rumored goodies but remember , its the same every year,lot of expectation but in the end just small upgrades. Major refresh will have its own event,maybe in the fall.

I know nobody wants to hear it, my gut is telling me this won be as big as we hoped to.
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Yes because we need all this time to talk about Facebook/iOS integration and a map app that's most likely going to be inferior to Google's. That's certainly more important than talking about new hardware. :p
 
ArcaneDevice said:
You should have been on the xlr8yourmac forum. There were always plenty of things to talk about and mod there.
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Yeah, I posted more on MacAddict. It mostly consisted of people being crazy and having weird esoteric arguments. xlr8 was a great place to look up info when fixing old macs, though.
 
it seems the new macbook pros are really gonna be "professional" according to the price... i also doubt people would be willing to buy a new macbook pro rather than keeping their old MacBooks and buying an iMac 27 or a Mac Pro.
 
keramidas said:
God it must be good to know so many people are eager to just fill Apple's coffins...

No disrespect or bad intentions. It's just that you've got to applaud Apple's strategy this past decade. It made quite a few people just "wanting" to buy.

Terrific, terrific strategy, marketing, effort, result.
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Yeah, because nobody here NEEDS a new mac, they just want one :rolleyes:

The current Mac Pro line is crap and doesn't fulfil its users needs, hence a refresh will equal people being able to finally get a Mac Pro that can pull its weight once again.
 
Why all this talk about "no retina"? It's like everyone EXPECTS a price boost from simply including that feature in its base models.

If Apple wanted to REALLY take a big chomp out of the desktop and laptop market... they, initially, would have to make minor sacrifices. The retina display, as a standard, does that for their product line. They would literally trounce their competitors.

I just don't get all this "no retina" talk. Hey maybe I'm missing something. If so... do enlighten me. I'm all ears.
(Or... eyes... ya know because of the... nm)
 
charlituna said:
They won't. This list, if true, just adds to the idea that they won't be keynoting hardware. It's 90 minutes. The bulk of that will have to be iOS 6 which they have to preview to set up every iOS panel for the rest of the week. otherwise what's the point of having those panels. Then there's any remaining Mountain Lion features to disclose, also vital to the whole conference. Those two are easily 60 of the 90 minutes if not more. 30 minutes to talk about that whole list in any kind of detail. Not even Steve could pull that off. Any mentions of hardware will be quick and cursory. They will talk in broad strokes focusing on details that will directly effect the software and require changes in existing apps etc. Oh speaking of apps, if they have anything new on that front to discuss like say a new version of iWork for that native iCloud document syncing everyone is screaming about being vital, that's even less time for hardware.
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Actually, after lunch, they usually have a "State of the OS" lecture, ahem, "session" which goes for an hour on technical details of the OS's, so, no they don't absolutely have to spend the whole keynote on iOS 6. Then a "State of Developer Tools" then "State of Graphics" or whatnot... Monday is a pretty boring day, other than the heart pounding excitement of seeing Steve Jobs on sta... seeing Tim Cook on s... seeing Phil... well. Ok, Monday is a pretty boring day... aside from those moments when they announce features like magnetometers & gyroscopes and I yelp for joy, embarrassing myself and the people around me.
 
The $35 - $59 range products are cables and adapters. With a shift to USB3 there will need to be cables for the transition. As well as cables for Thunderbolt to whatever interface (FW800, Ethernet, etc). This assumes they dump the bulky FW800 and ethernet ports of course. My opinion, but what do I know.
 
deconstruct60 said:
Unless the Time Capsule router is getting "better than GbE" connectivity (e.g., bounded GbE throughput for mutiple Gbps bandwidth ) it isn't all that likely to require Thunderbolt like bandwidth to the data store. Even if doing back-ups of the back-ups from the internal to an external drive ... it is kind of overkill.
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That is exactly the point.

The problem is when people say TB TC, do they mean TC to external HDD or TC to computer? One could use TB to replace or supplement the GbE connection (essentially tunnelling 10 GbE or Fibre Channel through it) but then why not add one of these two directly (ok, adding 10 GbE to a computer does not come completely free but adding TB to the TC might not be cheaper than adding 10 GbE to both sides, computer + TC).
 
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JayJayAbels said:
Why all this talk about "no retina"? It's like everyone EXPECTS a price boost from simply including that feature in its base models.

If Apple wanted to REALLY take a big chomp out of the desktop and laptop market... they, initially, would have to make minor sacrifices. The retina display, as a standard, does that for their product line. They would literally trounce their competitors.

I just don't get all this "no retina" talk. Hey maybe I'm missing something. If so... do enlighten me. I'm all ears.
(Or... eyes... ya know because of the... nm)
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My bet is that ALL of these upgrades have a Retina upgrade - that's why they're being upgraded at the same time.
 
Rogifan said:
Yes because we need all this time to talk about Facebook/iOS integration and a map app that's most likely going to be inferior to Google's. That's certainly more important than talking about new hardware. :p
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It's DEVELOPERS conference most of all. So yeah,maybe - there's a ton of new features in iOS and ML besides what you mention. Sandboxing, gatekeeping and I think everyone will be interested about new APIs.
 
theSeb said:
Unfortunately those laptops are long gone. You will struggle to find a laptop with 1920x1200 16:10 resolution these days. There was a dip for a while and many laptops have been coming out with 1366x768, even 15" ones. It seems that higher resolution is back in vogue on the PC side again and there are more higher resolution displays available, but they are only 1920x1080 (16:9). Great for watching movies, but not as great as 16:10 for working.
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Are they're any others than the 17 inch mbp?

Sony has a fair number of models of 1080p. But others have a lot at 1366x768. And honestly I find anything below n x 1050 unusable.
 
keramidas said:
Totally agree.

In fact I remember having a Latitude D800 at work back in March 2003, which had a 1920x1200 resolution display at 15,4".

It shouldn't be too hard to have a decent resolution in 2012.
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Yep. Definitely. I remember having a work laptop back in 2001, which ran 1600x1200!

And hopefully if we get retina displays, I hope it can be adjusted so you can choose a balance between more screen estate versus retina quality.
 
DOES THAT MAN I'VE BEEN WAITING ON MBP'S 13" FOR MONTHS AND NOW IT ISNT EVEN COMING?!?! FOR **** SAKE IM PISSED!:mad:
 
bushido said:
you dont get it :rolleyes: current macbook pro 15 retails for AU $2.099 IN AUSTRALIA and the NEW macbook pro 15 supposedly starts at AU $2.499 IN AUSTRALIA so thats a $400 increase. this has nothing to do with currency rates
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How do you know that the one in the rumored list is the entry model? The list could be incomplete. We'll see.
 
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