Analyst Speculates on Mac Pro and MacBook Air Updates, iTunes.com at WWDC

[WilliamLondon]

That is very unlikely to ever happen. There just isn't enough bandwidth/coverage available. Even with the research going on into 60 GHz networking you still won't have the coverage you need.

I can't ever imagine that happening. For anybody that works outside the office or leaves the home socially, storage will continue to be important into the foreseeable future.

Unfortnately recent history has indicated that you can't trust external services. Be it Microsoft/Danger, yahoo or whatever the evidence is clear you can't rely upon external services. In fact one of iPhones best features is the ability to do local backups.

You may believe that and frankly it might work for SOME consummer uses but only some. For the business world they will want more security and reliability than the industry can provide.

Dave

Dave, you need to have a little vision. I never said it would happen tomorrow, but it will happen. Perhaps it's just the sci-fi fan in me, perhaps it's more than 20 years in IT, but it will happen. It's happening already, and business actually here is leading the way with cloud.

Bandwidth is an issue we will deal with - look at what's happened in just the last 10 years. In my home in 10 years I've gone from 56k dial up to 20Mb dedicated line.

To make statements like it is unlikely to *ever* happen is just ignoring what *is currently* happening and more importantly, it ignore the concept of technological progress.

This is more than wishful thinking, it is happening already. Not as quickly as I'd like, but it is happening. You can't deny it, and to say it's just wishful thinking ignores everything going on today, and everything we can deliver tomorrow.

 

[mcmlxix]

3G & AT&T plans in MBA

The new MBA will have 3G capabilities and a data plan with AT&T... There now I am an analyst too.

Yes, we're all analysts.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9875061&#post9875061

 

[REM314]

Im waiting for WWDC to buy my desktop. If Mr. Jobs doesn't really wow me by putting better video cards in the iMac or revamping the whole desktop line Im sadly going to buy a PC. I really like OS X =(.

 

[sjo]

....... so why is this on page one? This story (or at least the subject as gleaned from the title) seems kind of pointless given the above discredit. There are several threads in the forums with exactly the same amount of credibility about the Mac Pro and the MBA, why not link to those as well?

What about macrumors adding new section "Analyst guesses" after "Page 2" for these? Seems like if the analyst guesses are not discredited on the article, they are retracted the next day. Only after an analyst proves himself on the "Analyst guesses" section on several occasions, his predictions would be posted on the first page.

 

[heisetax]

Mac Pro Support

Is Apple still supporting the Intel Mac Pro? it seems as if there was twice as many updates with the PPC G5 PowerMac as with the Intel Mac Pro. Other than running Windows on my Mac my G5 PowerMac does as good a job of running my Mac programs as does my Intel Mac Pro. I have both so I can judge with the software that i use. Because I work in the tax prep business I run Windows all of the time just like I do Excel. But at least Excel iis the Mac version. But since it is the PPC version 2004 it gains nothing by using an Intel processor.

With this lack of updates with the Intel Mac Pro one can easily see why so many people want to make their own Mac Clone. My next tower may be a non-Mac tower for that reason.

The MacBook Air is at the other end of the spectrum. It's not for me so I can not judge what Apple's lack of updating it really means. I guess we're supposed to purchase 3, I mean 2 iPads to replace our small portable needs. Maybe it means that the iPod/iPhone/iPad OS will reign & Mac OS X will be allowed to die. At least Apple could sell it to MS or some other company that may be interested in it.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Im waiting for WWDC to buy my desktop. If Mr. Jobs doesn't really wow me by putting better video cards in the iMac or revamping the whole desktop line Im sadly going to buy a PC. I really like OS X =(.

It is a developers conference.
I think expectations of hardware bumps should be viewed as above and beyond the scope. Save the iPhone, apparently.

 

[afrowq]

Well my trusty 6 year old Power Mac G5, which has been a wonderful, reliable workhorse that has made me quite a bit of money, and has been nursed along and held together with duct tape and crossed fingers, has a main hard drive that is finally starting to give up the ghost. (6 years is a pretty good life- never planned on making it last so long!). I know hard drives are easy to replace, but I'd have to reinstall a bunch of software, and the whole computer needs to be much faster for my animation work. A slow computer for animation is like a slow race car. After two additional untimely external hard drive failures within the last year (Western Digital and G Tech) I'm ready to move to a very very fast, Intel-based Mac computer with a large amount of reliable, internal storage and plenty more ram.

I've been debating on buying a loaded 27" Imac for a couple months now, but I have held back just to see if the new Pro is coming out. (plus who wants to change computers in the middle of a big project?)

Either way, I will not wait anymore for a Mac Pro after the WWDC.

No news by the end of the conference, I'm pulling the trigger on an i7. If they could at least TELL US a new Pro is coming out, I'll work on my wife's laptop (no pun intended) until the release. I've got over three months of animation freelance work to do with this machine and I simply cannot waste any more time (and productivity) waiting for some long-rumored apparition to make a red carpet appearance.

I know you guys are tired of hearing about mac pro release stuff, but thats where I'm at. I really need one immediately, and I'm not alone.

Ditto here. Except I'll never get an all-in-one like the imac. I need multiple harddrives and expandability too much. So I'll just buy a PC tower if there's no action on the Mac Pro front.

 

[REM314]

It is a developers conference.
I think expectations of hardware bumps should be viewed as above and beyond the scope. Save the iPhone, apparently.

I don't care if they release it at the conference. I just want them to announce it. Its too bad for Apple that they may lose a customer because they're so secretive. But then again im sure this happens all the time and Apple doesn't care. Meh.

 

[Justinf79]

A new MP would be great news.

 

[heisetax]

MacRumors?????

Yes, but isn't that what page 2 is for?

Because of the little Mac stuff on MacRumors at the present time, any Mac item no matter how small or reliable the rumor may be. If the name would be changed to AppleToyRumors then any Mac rumor would be page 2 or something not to list. Until that time I'm glad to see a rumor about the Mac.

WWDC will be an Apple Toy conference. The Mac is dead, long live Unix.

 

[Justinf79]

WWDC will be an Apple Toy conference.

So all smartphones and tablet computers are toys to you?

 

[Lesser Evets]

iLol'd

....MacPro updates...

 

[heisetax]

Offsite Backups

Not having to worry about backups and access from my browser would be my guess. However with time machine and iPod/iPhone/iPad who cares.

While off site backups are needed I want more control of them than is given with web storage. The web is important for many things. But some of these things are good for those with complete trust. The rest of us need to use a second /or third location for out backups. The "Cloud" is not always available. Get out here where there are more cows than people & you'll know about this. Get in the mountains & you'll really know about this.

 

[SaleenS351]

Im waiting for WWDC to buy my desktop. If Mr. Jobs doesn't really wow me by putting better video cards in the iMac or revamping the whole desktop line Im sadly going to buy a PC. I really like OS X =(.

Unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you. I'm hoping for an updated MBA. I need an ultraportable for school. The 13" MBP would fit my needs, but I'm not dropping $1k on a C2D chipset. I keep my computer for 5-6 years and I need them to be able to last as long as possible and the C2D isn't the future the core ix is.

 

[idonotliketostu]

macbook air - smaller footprint!!! less bezel!!!

 

[ransal1]

Is WU really getting paid for this? Because IMHO Scottsdale has been doing a lot better job at not only these speculations but also backing his statements with substantial technical details.

 

[paja]

New Mac Mini Due

I hope we see a new Mac Mini. A price cut and a new form factor would be nice.

 

[petsounds]

Shaw Wu is a terrible analyst. So why do Mac sites always pick up his blatherings like they are anything more than wild guesses? Just...stop it.

 

[ValSalva]

It is a developers conference.
I think expectations of hardware bumps should be viewed as above and beyond the scope. Save the iPhone, apparently.

True, it is for developers. But at last year's WWDC Apple released huge updates for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Anything is possible really.

 

[johnnymg]

So - anybody have a track record of analyst predictions over the years? I seem to recall that Wu, specifically, lacks a certain amount of credibility.

Hi nickname is Shu Wrong on my aapl investor site.

JohnG

 

[johnnymg]

Unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you. I'm hoping for an updated MBA. I need an ultraportable for school. The 13" MBP would fit my needs, but I'm not dropping $1k on a C2D chipset. I keep my computer for 5-6 years and I need them to be able to last as long as possible and the C2D isn't the future the core ix is.

The next MPA processor will very likely be a C2D so you better start warming the oven for some crow pie.

 

[DARKJ3DI]

I am really interested in getting an Air. A friend of mine at my residential college has one (rev A model) and its a really great machine to use. A lot lighter than my MacBook. As for the Pro, I would be good to see Apple supporting the Pro sector again. The majority of computers on Campus are Macs (there are two Mac Minis in each lecture theatre, one running 10.6 and another running XP and the lab computers are dual booted iMacs) and the media departments need new Mac Pros to handle the processing that they do.

 

[MrSmith]

He should go back to cleaning windows.

 

[Houston]

Apple's set of physical products is abysmally in need of updating. It would be nice if eventually Apple has 2010 Refreshes for all of their physical products, unveiling most of them at WWDC.

11 of their main 14 physical products haven't been refreshed yet this year: iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Air, iPhone, Apple Cinema Displays, Xserve

Although I'm still mad there is no quad-core choice for MacBook Pro. I'm hoping something becomes available in November after Intel comes out with better versions of the applicable i5/i7 cpus.

I'll bet that won't happen.

 

[wiredx]

many of you seem misinformed about what analysts do. they dont just sit around all day and make predictions about popular products, which unfortunately seem to be one of the few times they get some airtime