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The Official "What Is Going To Be Released At WWDC" Thread

themacman said:
of course because of the new music videos in itms.
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They won't let this out of the bag until a month before Thanksgiving.

BUT

The minute they announce an iPod that I can show home movies on...sold.
 
Jo-Kun said:
and better screens overall... just put an iBook next to a PowerBook have both screens on maximum brightness and dimm the lights: PowerBook has more & equal illumination all over the screen, iBook has more light in the centre of the screen, and is dimmer...

the colorreproduction on the PowerBooks is allso better (still there is a difference with using a high end display (crt or the real good tft's) but quite good...)
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Nope. You're wrong there. The iBooks and the Powerbooks use exactly the same screens. (well, for at least the 12 inch). The 15 and 17 inch are just bigger versions of that screen, with the same quality and ppi (pixels per inch). So there really are no extra pixels either. You're just paying for a bigger screen, thats all.

As far as my opinion goes, it doesn't make sense for them to put an HD screen on a powerbook if it doesn't have the power to playback HD video right? 😕

It just wouldn't go with the whole "year of HD" thing that steve has started up. 😀
 
I hope that somewhere someone comes out with a video camera with a HDD. *coughmakeiCamapple!cough* Come on guys, tapes are stupid and dvd's are too permanent.

I also am wishing for dual core PM's. Come on stevie, show me something I want. 😎
 
I doubt steve would waste an hour talking about a speed bump to the ibook line. That should come quietly as all other upgrades have happened.

For sure they are going to release asteroid and steve is going to talk about what a success itunes has been....

GIVE ME A UPDATED POWERBOOK!!!
 
First - a lot of talking why Tiger is soooo great
Second - a lot of talking why Tiger is soooo great
Third - a lot of talking why Tiger is soooo great

And silently appearing in the Apple Store:
Updated mac mini, 1.5 and 1.67 with 64vram card
Redesigned iBook
Updated HD 17" pbook - thats it

Maybe:
iTunes 5.0 with video support and ACC+

Around October slightly better PBs.

Cheers
LaForge
 
I was planning on setting up an order for a 15" PowerBook this week. Now the time that it would take to process this order is about three weeks (it's going through a business purchase order). What I've really been looking for in a PowerBook is a HD screen. Do you guys think that I should wait and see if they release a 15" at WWDC, and even if they did, how soon do you all think it would ship? I need it somewhere in the middle of July at the absolute latest.
 
rockandrule said:
I was planning on setting up an order for a 15" PowerBook this week. Now the time that it would take to process this order is about three weeks (it's going through a business purchase order). What I've really been looking for in a PowerBook is a HD screen. Do you guys think that I should wait and see if they release a 15" at WWDC, and even if they did, how soon do you all think it would ship? I need it somewhere in the middle of July at the absolute latest.
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If you need the HD screen - why not get the 15" now + a 23" screen? On the other hand - if you can wait, wait.
 
No one said I had the money to pull off a deal like that. If I could I would though. It's more of a want rather than a need, I'm just hoping that I can get one with a HD screen. I work at Office Depot and it kills me to go in everyday and look at the beautiful screens on our HP and Toshiba notebooks, and realize that Apple doesn't offer them as of yet.
 
After doing some more thinking, I'll revise my guesses.

Likely: AirPort Extreme Update, either to the 802.11n draft (assuming it looks like it'll just be a matter of a firmware update to get it to spec eventually) or to the dual-channel 802.11g stuff that D-Link and Netgear make right now. Java 1.5 beta.

Possible: iBook update. Preview of next-generation Xcode Tools. List (no demos) of 10.5 planned features. Demo of QuickTime 7.1. WebObjects 6, or at least 5.5*.

Unlikely: PowerMac updates to either dual-core or 3 GHz. Mac mini update.

Very unlikely: 10.5 demo. Anything to do with iTunes or iPod.

*if that one, then here's some scenarios for that:

Likely: complete privatization of the Enterprise Objects frameworks to discourage hacks to use EOF and Cocoa/Objective-C (for those who need a bit more than CoreData can give them). A rewrite of EOModeler in Java🙁. Rewrite of WOBuilder in Java. Lots of defeated sighs from the few remaining WebObjects and EOF developers.

Possible: Apple admits it's mistake in choosing Java over Objective-C for WebObjects 5, announces WO6 (shipping later in the year) will have complete Objective-C support, in addition to Java. Updates to EOF, a major bug-fix and UI update release for EOModeler, and a WebKit-based WOBuilder. Huge cheering from the WO developers in the crowd (myself included) 😀.

Unlikely: Apple announces that WebObjects 6 will be based on Ruby or Python. Mixed reactions. Some self-defenestration due to frustration by those who don't care what Apple uses for WebObjects, just so long as it stays consistent.

Very unlikely: Apple discontinues WebObjects except for in-house use (iTMS, Apple Store) or raises the price back to $50,000 without any significant updates.
 
i dont think ibook will get updated at WWDC. if it does, it will be just announced on the site and thats all. unlikely but maybe PB update? not to G5, but maybe a little speed bump or RAM bump. apple is being pressured about pb g5 so maybe they will try to quiet those fans by a small update? 😀
 
Hmm

Not tivo, but Apple's version; the iDVR.

Uses the same case as the Mini. Can you imagine that sitting on top of your tv?

Uses iTunes (or some similar interface, iTV? iTube?) to pick and choose which programs to record.

Actually plays nice with Comcast's sucky digital boxes.

Oh, and it's HDTV compatible.

Hey, it could happen? 😀
 
My guess:

108MBit Airport Extrem

mac mini:

+200Mhz, 512MB-Ram, +Superdrive

ib:
new brighter/better displays 2 work outside.
DDR333, 108 MBit Airport Extrem, BT2
12" 1.33 Ghz, 60MB HD
(13" i don't know)
14" 1.5 Ghz NVIDIA GeForce FX
15" 1.5 Ghz NVIDIA GeForce FX

pb:
new brighter/better displays 2 work outside.
108 MBit Airport Extrem
12" 1.67 Ghz, cold and silent 😀
15" 1.67/1.90 >x>1.67 Ghz, 128MB ATI,
17" 1.90 >x>1.67 Ghz, 128MB ATI
 
WWDC announcement predictions:
- PowerBook HD 17"
- iSight HD
- Asteriod
- New Pro Apps/Next-gen Apps
- PowerMac HD 3.0GHz with Blu-ray


Is there a good possibility that Jobs might announce the following at D?
- iBook update
- Mac mini update
- phasing out of the 20GB iPod black-and-white

I'm pretty confident that it is likely that the AirPort Express update will update at D, along with a lot of talk about the HD roadmap, the Apple-Sony-TiVo and the future of Blu-ray, hints of WWDC and Macworld Paris, and a few other things.
 
My predictions:

AE with 802.11n Support

HD Powerbooks

All Notebooks with 128mb VRAM minimum

"17 Cinema Display (Maybe iSight integrated 🙄 )

"30 Cinema Display price drop

Video ipods 🙄

Apple media centre (mac mini + HD output + Some cool Multimedia management Package (like Windows Media Centre) + Remote)

Basic RAM upgrade to 512MB or Possibly 1gb (I know im dreaming)

A two Button Wheel Mouse ( 😛 )

Better GFX in Mac mini (128mb)

Dual Core cpu announcement (official)

More posters taking the P*SS out of Longhorn

Tiger for x86 (Because i can dream 😛 )
 
Erendiox said:
As far as my opinion goes, it doesn't make sense for them to put an HD screen on a powerbook if it doesn't have the power to playback HD video right? 😕
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well, if the powerbooks were G5, then they could play back HD videos 😉
 
Powerbook G5-M

There will be Powerbooks, 13", 15", 17" widescreen, the 13" being a subnotebook without optical drive, weighing less than 1,5 kg.
They use DDR2 and and their FSB runs at 600 or 666 MHz, a third of the speed of the new G5 Mobile processor, which is basically a G4 with 64-bit capabilities, clocked at 1,8/2,0 GHz.

(no, I don't belive it, but I'd like it...)
 
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At the last keynote it was all about the HD "year",so you can definately guarantee some HD stuff. I think it will be a new program or programs dealing with HD. I am hoping a HD PowerBbook G5...but that may not happen. Maybe a boost on the PM,and maybe something to do with Sony. Oh yeh don't forget talk about the new quicktime format.
 
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