What hardware do you expect to go on sale next week?

None I don't see any updates coming out from WWDC with the possible exception of the Apple Watch 2.

 

Best Buy had some sales earlier this week (1st Gen Macbooks), even if Apple doesn't announce anything, I'd check there first with Father's Day right around the corner, you might find some good deals.

 

Nothing. WWDC is about software.

 

An AI device with improved SIRI, connects tor your Apple TV via AirPlay. Can remote control HomeKit and Apple TV.
The whole WWDC will be about "AIkit" and its API's.
No MacBook, no MacPro, no Displays, nothing,

Swift in the Cloud will come and "Xcode lite" on the iPad Pro with compilatio in the cloud.

 

It's gotten to the point where Apple have to release new hardware. The current rMBP is not skylake and doesn't have enough RAM, and E5-V4 Xeons have been around for a month or so no so there's no reason not to upgrade the nMP. If Apple do nothing, especially with the rMBP, people will just move onto other hardware. I need a new laptop now, but I won't buy anything from Apple until I know what is happening next week. And if they make a complete pigs ear of the keyboard like they have done with the MacBook I'll be buying a Dell 5510.

 

Then its probably worth waiting, but "manage your expectations".

"No hardware - just OSX and iOS news" is a strong contender.

"Watch2" is a possibility - especially if it has new capabilities that they want to get developers writing for.

The MacBook Pro range is long overdue for a make-over - this is partly dependent on Intel releasing the correct chips (the specific mobile versions with the Iris Pro graphics have been slow to appear) - and if (as seems likely) they're introducing Thunderbolt 3 & USB-C there may be a developer angle. That's the most likely Mac announcement but my gut feeling is don't hold your breath. If they don't appear then its time to grab your popcorn and watch the fireworks on these forums. If they do appear then it might mark the end of the 13" Air (obsolete in the face of a slightly thinner 13" rMBP).

The 12" MacBook was bumped a few months ago, so that's unlikely to change.

The iMacs were updated late last year, so they won't change.

The Mac Mini needs an update, but is often neglected so I wouldn't hold your breath. A new Mac Mini using Intel's Skull Canyon platform would be brilliant, but I fear that is wishful thinking.

The Mac Pro needs an update. However, archaeologists studying a 2-million year old engraving hacked in the wall of a cave in the African Rift Valley have recently translated the ancient pictograms as saying "If Mac Pro not upgraded when next rains come, we getting black monolith from Moonwatcher. It full of stars!".

 

All indications are that WWDC will be a software-only event. This makes some sense, especially in light of the time demands posed by discussing four different operating systems. I also think this would be a good time to preview Apple Music updates, which probably will be a selling point.

I agree with others that hardware desperately needs an update. I can't think of another period in Apple's history where so much hardware seems stale, and only at Apple's darkest point was the Mac lineup as confused as it currently seems. But it's just not clear when or how Apple plans to address that.

 

Apple "has" updated hardware on occasion during their software event... Though it is highly unlikely this time since not much on the rumor side (or apple has tighten up on the 'secret' thing...we could see an announcement or something if Apple is concerned with Mac sales so developers can write to the new graphics hardware etc....I know...I am hoping.

I am in a spot because I need to update to a mac pro for video editing and do not want to spend thousands on older technology. Yes Apple the current mac pro "is" fast and good, but the way you have been changing stuff lately, plus the tech industry's advancements, it will be "old" tech faster and pro stuff purchases at higher pricing tiers for equipment need to be relevant longer for the cost, so purchases need to last for some time. Budgeting schedules (upgrading etc.) in business is common and is how business' run, not like yearly iPhone purchases. So my guess is that they will not update for another year, which puts me in a bind with little choice...unless I give in and go to PC...

 

Best Buy is giving $50 off the Watch Sport. Yesterday or day before they ran one of those 4 hour on line specials with $200 on some of the higher end models.....

 

Stick a new graphics card in the one you have.

 

I sincerely doubt that any new hardware will go on sale next week. It's possible, albeit unlikely, that we even see any hardware announcements... but nothing actually released and made available, IMO.