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Apple's Virtual WWDC Event to Kick Off on June 22

Jimmy James said:
I’m warming to the idea of Arm computers. My concern is that Apple will leverage the efficiency only to go small, light, and fanless. I’d like to see something relatively powerful in an existing size with an increase in battery life.
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But this way they could offer it as both a developer transition kit and as an entry level Mac for people who don't care about what chip powers their device. Also it would force devs to program for less capable HW.
 
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tbayrgs said:
Agree...customers who purchase the new MBP 13" would absolutely lose their **** if a 14" was released a month later. The 14" isn't happening this year.

I'd also wager that we won't see the AirTags or HomePod Mini until this fall, as accompanying products in the next iPhone keynote.
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Haha, I can see it now, but I think it will be alright.

The 14" MBP isn't coming until 2021 with mini-LED.
At most, the entry-level 13" MBP will see a secondary refresh post-WWDC - just like with 2019
The 16" MBP will get its refresh later in October/November (probably Nov since the Pro iPhones are pushing into October).

I was interested in AirTags, but not any longer.

HomePod Mini - meh.
 
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Emanuel Rodriguez said:
I'm hoping for an ARM transition reveal. If it's going to happen in 2021, they'll want to get it out early so that devs can be prepared (I believe they did something similar for the PowerPC-Intel transition).

EDIT: They did
https://www.cultofmac.com/484394/apple-intel-over-powerpc/
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Well, they did the Intel development kit, didn't they for the PPC/Intel transition? No reason they couldn't have an ARM/MAC developer unit.

And more recently, they offered the Sonnet eGPU unit to test egpu capability?

So there are precedents for hardware previews to aid transitions of software/hardware.

Azrael.
 
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The Game 161 said:
So will this able to be watched live or developers only? Guessing everybody will be able to
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I'm not sure—years ago, anything developer-related required the $99/year membership. A few years back they started allowing people to enroll their Apple IDs as "Developers" and you'd have access to certain content (I think maybe this coincided with the public beta programs?). The student contest lists this as a requirement, so I'm wondering if you can be just registered on the free tier (apparently the free tier gets you a lowercase d, but the program itself is a proper noun):

Be registered for free with Apple as an Apple developer or be a member of the Apple Developer Program
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Azrael9 said:
Well, they did the Intel development kit, didn't they for the PPC/Intel transition? No reason they couldn't have an ARM/MAC developer unit.
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Yep, the Intel kit was basically a G5 tower (one optical drive) case that had a PC motherboard inside of it and a Pentium 4 CPU (Pic at the bottom of this page—lots of empty space!)
 
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Azrael9 said:
Well, they did the Intel development kit, didn't they for the PPC/Intel transition? No reason they couldn't have an ARM/MAC developer unit.

And more recently, they offered the Sonnet eGPU unit to test egpu capability?

So there are precedents for hardware previews to aid transitions of software/hardware.

Azrael.
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Yes, it does seem likely that we'll see such a kit.
 
ChadC880 said:
Funny my 2012 27" died also last week. A complete format, I was able to backup from Bootcamp. 10 hours later and I was up and running. I don't want to waste money on a new or 1 1/2 year old iMac if new ones are coming right around the corner.
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Yep. My iMac 'died' (late 2012 27 incher here...) recently.

Shame it didn't hang on. Bah. But I wouldn't touch the 2019 iMacs with a barge pole right now.

Azrael.
 
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Emanuel Rodriguez said:
Yes, it does seem likely that we'll see such a kit.
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Perhaps.

The picture seems a bit Nintendo Wii in graphics. Apple Arcade seems to be have a big success. Some lovely looking games on that. I'd expect to hear more on that. And sooner or later, that will have implications for the Mac ARM machine. So...

I wonder if this hints at Mac ARM 'Mac'books (an iBook?) With even more emphasis on 'Macs' (or ARM Macs) as a gaming platform.

Swift. Metal. iPad 'Marzipan' to Mac apps. These moving parts will probably have substantive updates along with XCode available for 'iPad' might be more...an actual Mac ARM dev' kit running X Code? The clues will be in these software technologies at the least.

I'll expect we'll hear more on the iPad to Mac transition Apps wise. And a hardware Mac ARM hardware or developer hardware piece of kit would be very intriguing.

Something based on the A14 perhaps? Or the 12z as preview piece of kit. Ie. An iPad 'z' but as a Mac ARM test kit.

'Future of the Mac' platform....sure, they've said that before. But a major transition is, allegedly, happening next year.

Something has got to give in that time frame.

WWDC 2020 seems to be the place to do it.

Azrael.
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I was hoping for an early June WWDC. So. Yup. Me too. :/

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Yup. Me too. :/

Azrael.
ecschwarz said:
I'm not sure—years ago, anything developer-related required the $99/year membership. A few years back they started allowing people to enroll their Apple IDs as "Developers" and you'd have access to certain content (I think maybe this coincided with the public beta programs?). The student contest lists this as a requirement, so I'm wondering if you can be just registered on the free tier (apparently the free tier gets you a lowercase d, but the program itself is a proper noun):





Yep, the Intel kit was basically a G5 tower (one optical drive) case that had a PC motherboard inside of it and a Pentium 4 CPU (Pic at the bottom of this page—lots of empty space!)
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Thank you for the link.

How did it cost back then? I don't remember it being £6k?

Azrael.
 
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