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New Macs, Updated iOS and Mac Software, No iOS Hardware Expected for WWDC

Stuipdboy1000 said:
Posted this is another thread but here's my prediction for this year.

-Tim Cook takes the stage.
-Updates on retail, App Store, iTunes and iBooks.
-Phil Schiller introduced modestly spec-bumped MacBook Airs, MBPs and maybe Retina MBPs.
-Mac freakin' Pro. Available next month. Made in USA.
-Great hardware deserves great software (blah, blah, blah).
-Craig Federhigi introduces OS X 10.9. Available in late Summer (more vague than setting an actual month because of the OS X teams work on iOS 7).
-Craig stays on stage to debut iOS 7 with new features, including all the rumoured features (redesign, etc.). Also includes lots of improvements for Apple TV including an App Store. New apps debuting on Apple TV today including one from The CW (like what was, I think prematurely, announced the other week) and other content partners. iOS 7 is available in the Autumn/Fall. Beta to developers today.
-Tim Cook returns to the stage. Thank you for coming, have a great week (blah, blah, blah).

The end.
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That's pretty close but I think the Made In The USA product will be the Mac Mini.
 
Jony Ive remodled Logic

I imagine Jony Ive will have had great input with the Logic X GUI, particularly with iPad support for integrated workflows such as uninterrupted plugin access and cross medium functionality allowing for greater and more creative possibilities. Live musicians and studio musicians alike should be blown away with what this is going to offer while the competitors will be scrambling to follow. This very aesthetic is why the program was called Logic way back when computer music technology was fresh and new.

Think about that one for a minute ;)



Damn, I spelled remodelled wrong :-?
 
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badlydrawnboy said:
I have a 2008 (3,1) Mac Pro, and am hoping to upgrade. I've got a 27" NEC PA271 in landscape orientation and 24" NEC PA241 in portrait. I have several SSDs and fast 7200 HDDs in RAID configuration. I use this rig for photo editing. My reasons for preferring a Mac Pro are that I like the NEC monitors better than the ACDs (wider color gamut), and more configurable (and cheaper) storage and upgrade options.

That said, I'm open to the maxed-out iMac idea. I've been out of the loop, so I'm not sure about all the options. Are you using flash storage for the internal drive, and then connecting an external enclosure with SSDs and/or HDDs? Or are you using the Flash Drive? Which graphics card did you get?
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I have a 3TB Fusion Drive and a 6TB LaCie Thunderbolt RAID. I feel that it's much more responsive than my old Mac Pro even though on paper the Mac Pro should have been better.

I don't want to dismiss those who say they need a Mac Pro but I'm beginning to think that it's an "ego" thing: "I have a Mac Pro made for Professionals! Muahahahaha! iMac's are for amateurs! Muahahahaha!" I understand that a Mac Pro offers more flexibility but Apple can deal with that on the Mac Mini side. For me, I love having a very powerful Mac with a gorgeous screen all contained in one beautiful enclosure with no wires nest. Just power and 1 short Thunderbolt cable.
 
Peace said:
That's pretty close but I think the Made In The USA product will be the Mac Mini.
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... which will be the Mac Pro.

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cube said:
I don't care what is the most important for Apple. I care about what is most important for the people.
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Looks like the people have spoken. Sales say IOS is the most important.

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cube said:
There are obvious things I could do in Android without instruction that I have no idea how to do in iOS, provoking annoying results when trying to find out how.
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That is silly.

cube said:
If there's no iOS, there's Android.
If there's no Mac, there is nothing for me.
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The rest of the world will use Windows.
 
New Mac Pros

New Mac Pros OR BUST.


These should be the "Made in the USA" machines, considering the huge amount in shipping cost savings.

The Mac Pro has languished for three years now. It's pathetic.:rolleyes:
 
New Macs ?
Maybe just with Haswell Mac ! And new Mac Pro ?
But that's still interesting .
 
Sky Blue said:
- Intro
- MacBook Updates, maybe Mac Pro.
- OS X
- iOS 7

fin.
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Not much to get excited about. :eek:

Would hope for touch screen laptops (Nope won't happen)
OSX now runs IOS apps (Nope won't happen)
Introducing bluetooth mouse and trackpad support for IOS (Nope won't happen)
Office for IOS (Nope won't happen)
iTunes for Win RT (Nope won't happen)
 
ipedro said:
I genuinely want to know what people waiting for a Mac Pro are waiting for. I work on a maxed out iMac for photo and video editing and it suits my needs perfectly with no bottlenecks.

Is it upgradeability? Thunderbolt offers this now and Firewire already did before. People want it self contained in a pretty tower? Is that all?

I'm not dismissing the need for a Mac Pro but it has become a truly industrial niche market. I don't expect Apple to bow out of it because it would diminish the halo effect around their other products but I'm not expecting a Mac Pro to be what a lot of people want.

My expectation for a new Mac Pro is a software/hardware solution. OS X 10.9 would offer the ability to easily share the resources between many Macs. A refreshed Mac Mini line with an optical thunderbolt transmitter hiding in the Apple logo at the top and a receiver at the bottom with a stacking lock (i.e. magnets) to keep them aligned could do this. This modular system would offer near limitless scalable power and upgradability and custom hardware could be added to a Mac Mini like case with PCI ports.
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Maybe Apple can buy back my 30" Cinema display with a shiny new iMac then!

Your needs are probably not all that taxing. And you are not doing 3D; everyone who does 3D wants as many cores as possible, tons of RAM and GPUs with large amounts of memory; and big ass displays with a **** load of pixels.

Between Apple and Adobe; my prediction is they are done in 10 years unless they revert back to the needs of the people who allowed them to grow into the big ass corporate ass hats they have become.

-mark
 
iOS Ive`s version, What a Great News

Its great that a new iOS is coming!

Two things are important for me right now:
1- How fast will this new version be?!
2- Will it run on iphone 4?!


Really, iOS is needing a new face, and most importantly : a newer and faster interface. I personally think iOS might still be the best Operative System on Phones, but i like how fast Windows Phone is getting, and how functional Blackberry 10 is.

With Jon Ive at charge, i dont doubt it can get just better and better!
 
ipedro said:
I genuinely want to know what people waiting for a Mac Pro are waiting for. I work on a maxed out iMac for photo and video editing and it suits my needs perfectly with no bottlenecks.

Is it upgradeability? Thunderbolt offers this now and Firewire already did before. People want it self contained in a pretty tower? Is that all?

I'm not dismissing the need for a Mac Pro but it has become a truly industrial niche market. I don't expect Apple to bow out of it because it would diminish the halo effect around their other products but I'm not expecting a Mac Pro to be what a lot of people want.

My expectation for a new Mac Pro is a software/hardware solution. OS X 10.9 would offer the ability to easily share the resources between many Macs. A refreshed Mac Mini line with an optical thunderbolt transmitter hiding in the Apple logo at the top and a receiver at the bottom with a stacking lock (i.e. magnets) to keep them aligned could do this. This modular system would offer near limitless scalable power and upgradability and custom hardware could be added to a Mac Mini like case with PCI ports.
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What a Mac Pro can do that no other Mac can:
- 4, 8 or 12 cores
- Up to 64GB RAM
- 4 internal drives
- Multiple video cards
- Hardware raid (if you really need it)
- 2 x 1GB ethernet ports

And that is with the current gen.
 
ipedro said:
I have a 3TB Fusion Drive and a 6TB LaCie Thunderbolt RAID. I feel that it's much more responsive than my old Mac Pro even though on paper the Mac Pro should have been better.

I don't want to dismiss those who say they need a Mac Pro but I'm beginning to think that it's an "ego" thing: "I have a Mac Pro made for Professionals! Muahahahaha! iMac's are for amateurs! Muahahahaha!" I understand that a Mac Pro offers more flexibility but Apple can deal with that on the Mac Mini side. For me, I love having a very powerful Mac with a gorgeous screen all contained in one beautiful enclosure with no wires nest. Just power and 1 short Thunderbolt cable.
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Gee maybe that SSD drive has something to do with it, along with the faster memory, faster memory controller, faster external drive interface, etc etc.

Would it make you mad that HP makes a laptop geared towards content creators that would smoke your iMac? Of course it cost $7000. :rolleyes:

I could give a **** if they put Xeon chips in them; all we are really asking for is a modern tower using desktop parts with expansion slots, thunderbolt and usb3; is that really too hard or much to ask for?

-mark
 
morpheuzlal said:
Its great that a new iOS is coming!

Two things are important for me right now:
1- How fast will this new version be?!
2- Will it run on iphone 4?!


Really, iOS is needing a new face, and most importantly : a newer and faster interface. I personally think iOS might still be the best Operative System on Phones, but i like how fast Windows Phone is getting, and how functional Blackberry 10 is.

With Jon Ive at charge, i dont doubt it can get just better and better!
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It wouldn't surprise me if iOS 7 didn't support the iPhone 4.

But yes, I agree that iOS is due for an overhaul.
 
ipedro said:
I have a 3TB Fusion Drive and a 6TB LaCie Thunderbolt RAID. I feel that it's much more responsive than my old Mac Pro even though on paper the Mac Pro should have been better.

I don't want to dismiss those who say they need a Mac Pro but I'm beginning to think that it's an "ego" thing: "I have a Mac Pro made for Professionals! Muahahahaha! iMac's are for amateurs! Muahahahaha!" I understand that a Mac Pro offers more flexibility but Apple can deal with that on the Mac Mini side. For me, I love having a very powerful Mac with a gorgeous screen all contained in one beautiful enclosure with no wires nest. Just power and 1 short Thunderbolt cable.
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Do you have a MiniMac or an Imac (or both)?
 
0815 said:
Don't worry - releasing of new hardware will not slow down any hardware you just purchased. Just enjoy it - if it was perfect for your needs 2 month ago it will still be perfect for you need if they do a major update.
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I bought my MBP just a year ago and when it heard that the new ones came out in June it became a little pale... ;)
 
I am most interested in the Mac Pro, and OS X. The former, because I need one. The latter, because I want to see what the final OS X is going to look like. The most interesting WWDC in a long time will be next year's, though. They'll be debuting Mac OS 11, or at least hinting around about it. OS X is old. They've done a lot of work under the hood, but let's face it, it's time for a bottom-up rewrite of a lot of core functionality. I strongly suspect that the management shake-up was in small part because of the upcoming OS X successor. The assumptions and decisions they made back in 1999's original release just don't apply to today's reality. Think about it the changes that have happened in the last 15 years, not just computationally, but with services and the tablet and smart phone revolutions. Somebody's working on OS 11 right now, and it's based on modern assumptions and decisions. Some of those will have cross-polinated with OS X 10.9, but there's only so much you can tack on.

I'm sure I'll end up being interested in iOS 7, but we all know the best features of it will be iPhone 7th gen exclusives, based on whatever crazy hardware they're going to announce this coming fall.
 
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