Wwdc 2013

[th.dubach]

Apple's next developers conference kicks off June 10. Expected: Completely new iOS 7?

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/04/24/wwdc-2013-kicks-off-june-10-tickets-on-sale-april-25/

[th.dubach]

And apparently sold out in 2 minutes!!

[Glenwing]

The only thing I'm interested in is how they'll handle the new Mac Pro.  They'll no doubt want to keep using Xeons or at least Sandy Bridge-E, since if they went for regular quad-core Haswell chips it wouldn't be much more powerful than an iMac and wouldn't be able to do a dual-CPU configuration.  However, they'll also want to include Thunderbolt, which presents challenges since Xeons and SB-E don't have integrated graphics and thus aren't compatible with Thunderbolt.  Makes me wonder if they might solder a GPU to the board so they can do some engineering with the Thunderbolt chip to get it to run off of an integrated GPU on the board.  Working with Intel on that isn't out of the question.  And I doubt they would really bat an eye at getting rid of upgradeable/removable graphics cards.  They only offer like 2 options for graphics on their current Mac Pros so if they stick with that they'd only have to produce 2 board designs for the two different GPUs which is by no means terrible from a manufacturing/assembly line standpoint.