Mac Pro and displays please!!!!!! At least a sneak peak. Something needs to happen in 2019. 
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Apple Sends Out Media Invites for WWDC Keynote on June 3
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WWDC is always my favorite tech event of the year. Looking forward to it.
Me too!! I am hoping to be a on a long line with good internet connections so I can stream it lol.
Just bring back the cheese grater G5
Have to agree here. I don’t know why Endgame is getting such good reviews. I’d give it 4/10 at best. It was all over the place.
Have to agree here. I don’t know why Endgame is getting such good reviews. I’d give it 4/10 at best. It was all over the place.
The reality is, WWDC really is not about any hardware tech, it’s merely a bonus if Apple introduces any hardware, it’s mainly about the software introduction for macOS/watchOS/iOS. But in that respect, I’d say watchOS has some fairly large upgrades coming this year as well, at least that’s what I am anticipating the most.
Ha... That's a lot of instructions. So that is a different issue than I thought you were raising. I don't pay any attention to the mail app icon. In fact I turn it off and rely on notifications and the fact that I pretty much always have new mail. I turned on the mail app icon just to do your test and I see that the count does not go down until I receive another email or open the app. So if the icon immediately changing is important, I see that this is an issue. On the other hand, when I open the mail app on the phone, the message is marked as READ.
For me, that's what matters. The READ status is always in sync between all of my devices, so I know what has and what has not been read. It is to this I was referring in my original post.
just do this: G5 tower-like design but maybe slightly smaller with no optical drives and space gray. On the back 4X Thunderbolt 4.0, 4X USB 3 A, 10Gb ethernet and audio jacks. On the front UHS-II SD Card reader, audio jacks, 2X Thunderbolt 4.0, 2X USB 3 A. On the inside four M.2 blade SSDs that you can swap on your own, standard RAM sticks you can swap on your own up to 512GB, up to 32-core Intel CPU you can upgrade on your own, and dual PCI-X 4.0 slots spaced wide for dual GPUs configurable up to dual RTX 2080 Ti or whatever workstation equivalent that can be upgraded on your own. Integrated water cooling. Done. It's not that difficult. Start at $3999 for 8-core CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and Radeon VII. Fully maxed it will probably cost $25,000 but oh well, we can upgrade it ourselves. Maybe to keep some sales for higher spec'd units they could split the boards. Maybe on the lower tier you only get one PCI-X 4.0 and two M.2 SSD slots and a 256GB cap on RAM with only air cooling. IDK. Somewhat limits the upgradability, while Apple being able to still push higher end machines. I just feel like if this thing is gonna be modular, you're not going to be able to upgrade the base model all the way to the fully loaded model yourself. Would be great, but I doubt it.
I appreciate your taking the time to test this for me.
Could you test one last thing for me? This time, I would like to test your read status, not the icon or the badge. Forget about those.
1. Make sure that your iCloud mail account on iPhone is configured to Push new mail, NOT Fetch new mail.
2. Make sure that your email address ends in either @icloud.com, @mac.com, or @me.com.
3. Make sure that iPhone is NOT on WiFi and is NOT connected to power.
4. IMPORTANT: Make sure that iPhone stays on at all times with Mail app visible at all times. DO NOT close it. DO NOT refresh it. DO NOT switch to another app.
5. Receive a new mail and make sure that it's unread on both Mac and iPhone. DO NOT close Mail app on iPhone. DO NOT refresh it. DO NOT switch to another app.
6. Read the new mail on Mac or mark it as read.
7. Now look at the Mail app on iPhone but do NOT refresh it. Is the new mail marked as read?
Integrated water cooling sounds good, except...
Removing / adding GPUs or the CPU would require opening the loop (unless there are QDC fittings) but then you are limiting your water flow with every QDC. Not to mention the potential nightmare for warranty work, and the need for any GPUs going into the system to have the appropriate fittings to integrate into the loop.
Starting price of $3999 is too high, it should match the current Mac Pro entry level pricing of $2999. The Radeon VII is priced too high to be the base GPU, I would spec a Navi GPU for entry level, with a higher powered Navi as a step up, then the Radeon VII.
Your lower tier single PCIe slot model sounds a lot like the xMac that a lot of Mac users want, I would love to see Apple come out with a stellar modular Mac Pro, and an enthusiast model xMac would be one of the things that would make my head explode!
Switching all of the desktop Macs to AMD would be the way to go forward though; keeping the laptops to Intel for now, but putting them on notice that AMD is working on custom APUs for the MacBook Pros. MacBook & MacBook Air are merged into one product, which transitions to ARM APUs, along with the Mac mini.
iMacs, xMacs, & iMac Pros all use the Zen 2 Ryzen 3000-series CPUs, with the modular Mac Pro uses Zen 2 Threadripper CPUs...
But yeah, a single slot enthusiast xMac is what I am wanting; 12C/24T Ryzen 7 CPU, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD, 8GB GDDR6 Navi 10 GPU...!
Looks like they’re sending out different invites.
shocker, screw, hammer... on the mind of a cyborg. well, I guess we see what we want to see...
Dark mode, some tweaks to the core apps (fingers crossed on a significant improvement for the mail app) and some new Animoji. Maybe a surprise?
What is in it decides if I actually buy one, but no matter what I will complain about the price...!
Then I will switch to complaining because Apple has yet to give me the xMac that I really wanted...
I want a new Mac Pro because I’m tired of finding forgotten trash cans in the corner of Apple Stores (right by the iPod Touch and Beats Solo corner) and almost falling over in shock from the $10,000 price tag. I’d like to at least be horrified by the price tag on a new design.
Lol of course there will be an update. Feel free not to install it if you so wish, but many among us are looking forward to new features, and are probably going to be disappointed by the lack of them.
Nightmare scenario is they have individual proprietary modular boxes that stack on each other.
I think I saw on the Cult of Mac website that there are multiple Animoji’s being used at WWDC and what is exploding from their minds are clues to announcements. So one of them is about iTunes being changed or replaced, one is about games, and one was about new computer hardware. Or at least, that was Cult if Mac’s interpretation. I saw it but I don’t care enough to go back to get links.
Mac Pro? Come on Tim - surprise me! What is known til today is just disappointing:
https://www.cultofmac.com/608212/mac-pro-2019-design-release-date/
Stackable Mac Pro? Phew!!! What I (and lots of other people) really want is a new cheese grater with a cool Apple like M2/U2 SSD tray, PCIe slots for all kind of cards, slots, ports and power! Compatibility with Nvidia cards and a macOS that supports open standards like OpenGL/Vulkan.
But a new cheese grater wouldn't take years to develop and is not going to happen. My new workstation PC sitting near my desk fulfils all this needs despite the SSD tray (it could run macOS too) and took an hour to configure
https://www.cultofmac.com/608212/mac-pro-2019-design-release-date/
Stackable Mac Pro? Phew!!! What I (and lots of other people) really want is a new cheese grater with a cool Apple like M2/U2 SSD tray, PCIe slots for all kind of cards, slots, ports and power! Compatibility with Nvidia cards and a macOS that supports open standards like OpenGL/Vulkan.
But a new cheese grater wouldn't take years to develop and is not going to happen. My new workstation PC sitting near my desk fulfils all this needs despite the SSD tray (it could run macOS too) and took an hour to configure