WWDC?

octatonic

Anyone else watching?

(waiting 3 seconds for the first anti-Apple post).

Flink_Poyd

Nope

Bridgehouse

Half an eye on the macrumors feed to see if anything interesting, but it's not like the good old days...

Flink_Poyd

Bridgehouse said:

Half an eye on the macrumors feed to see if anything interesting, but it's not like the good old days...

There's no mystery about Apple anymore, plus I've moved to Windows after God knows how many years 

Bridgehouse

Flink_Poyd said:

Bridgehouse said:

Half an eye on the macrumors feed to see if anything interesting, but it's not like the good old days...

There's no mystery about Apple anymore, plus I've moved to Windows after God knows how many years 

I still use Logic Pro X - it's what I'm used to. I like it. 

ThePrettyDamned

I wonder if they'll *finally* update the imacs. I so desperately wanted one but they were so expensive for relatively old architecture, they're surely due the upgrade? 

octatonic

WWDC is usually a software oriented thing, rather than hardware related.
This year could be different though.

Metal 2 looks great.

stickyfiddle

Im not watching as I've just got off a plane but will check the Engadget live log. I reckon new macs, new iPads, maybe a Siri Speaker thing.  

duotone

stickyfiddle

Boom! New iMacs. A billion colours. I'm not even sure my eyes can see that many colours..?

fretmeister

What does WWDC mean?

octatonic

Hmmm I could consider going iMac now.
I was going to wait for the new Mac Pro next year but not sure I need to wait now.

stickyfiddle

fretmeister said:

What does WWDC mean?

Who wants David Cameron?

menamestom

Half an eye on this, I'm thinking of getting a laptop later in the year and fancy logic.  For me, Apple need to upgrade the specs of the lower priced models to make them more competitive.  At present you have to spec them all up too much for music applications.  They are a premium brand with great products but they are too far away at the moment.  £1200 including logic basically buys you a modest spec several year old machine.   Doubling the RAM and storage would be a start, as would upgrading the processors to the latest gen.

If they upgrade the air's but keep the price the same, I may be interested.

stickyfiddle

(It's actually worldwide developers conference. No one wants David Cameron)

octatonic

This Star Wars VR video is off the fucking chain.
Wow.
Just Wow!

ThePrettyDamned

Price will be everything. If the base model represents a solid deal for the money they'll fly off the shelves. 

Sadly the update was too late for me and I'm dead happy with my alienware and Adobe rgb Dell 2k screen, but it's reassuring to know they'll not let the imac line die as I'd have rather gone for that. Sounds like it uses latest architecture and all screens are wide colour gamut, although the old ones were very fussy with colour calibration. Hopefully they are all have ssd and spinning disk as standard, rather than the hybrid drives (128gb m.2 Pci-e ssd's are cheap enough for imacs I'd have thought). 

octatonic

And now the iMac Pro.
I think my studio computer is sorted.

18 Cores!

earwighoney

menamestom said:

Half an eye on this, I'm thinking of getting a laptop later in the year and fancy logic.  For me, Apple need to upgrade the specs of the lower priced models to make them more competitive.  At present you have to spec them all up too much for music applications.  They are a premium brand with great products but they are too far away at the moment.  £1200 including logic basically buys you a modest spec several year old machine.   Doubling the RAM and storage would be a start, as would upgrading the processors to the latest gen.

Agree. 

I'll probably go the way of Hackintosh in the future.  Budget Macs now seem really underpowered in terms of specs for making music and the higher end ones are way out of my financial reach. 

fretmeister

stickyfiddle said:

(It's actually worldwide developers conference. No one wants David Cameron)

Lol or Wis?

Mmmm. 

Sporky's idea to the rescue...

INTERROBANG!

octatonic

This Siri translation stuff is pretty awesome.