WWDC is fast approaching and is now less than one week away. That’s 7 sleeps left to go on the calendar of a hardcore Mac fanatic, I for one am looking forward to sitting down Tuesday morning with a nice warm hot chocolate and “watching” the MacRumors text commentary of the Keynote tick by.
We all have our silent (and not so silent) wishes for the event, here’s a few I’d personally love to see, but don’t realistically see happening at WWDC.
Mac Pro’s Updated To An All 8-Core Lineup
I’m on the verge of making a purchase over the next few weeks and I’d be tipped to do so immediately by on Apple’s part to raise the Mac Pro’s to an all 8-Core lineup. I can see this happening in the near future, but not as close as WWDC. Besides, why in the world would I need 8 Cores? One update I could see happening is an update to the (aging) stock video card inside the tower.
New Mid-Range Tower Labeled The “Mac”
I’ve heard complaints on various Mac centric forums for months now about the lack of a mid-range Mac tower, fitting in-between the iMac and Mac Pro in the desktop lineup. Such a machine could feature a single Intel Xeon chip, dual drive bays, support for dual displays, and 4 RAM slots for support of up to 8GB of memory.
I could see these selling like crazy if priced correctly, as prosumers jumped on a headless Mac where they could add their own displays and not be tied into the “All in one” non upgradeable iMac.
Cheaper Apple Cinema Displays
Apple Cinema Display’s have been known for two things in the past. Their sexy style, and their outright enormous price tags. In order to pull me away from a Dell display route I’d like to see Apple release updated Cinema Displays (Non-LED) with Built-in-iSight cameras, at a lower price point than the current monitors.
What are your wishes for hardware updates at WWDC?