RSSApple Sets Date for 2007 WWDC
By the Betanews Staff | Published February 6, 2007, 2:23 PM
Apple said Tuesday that it had set a date for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, a gathering where the company shows off development techniques and technologies to Macintosh developers. This year's conference will take place in San Francisco, Calif. from June 11-15.
It is possible that Mac OS X 10.5, code-named Leopard, may make its first appearance at the conference, as WWDC has sometimes been used as a launch pad for new software and hardware products. For example, at last year's event, Apple completed its transition to the Intel platform with the Mac Pro, as well as offering a sneak peek at Leopard.
Now if Apple would only remember that they supposedly are manufacturing more than just electronic doodads and substantially beef up the MacBook Pro video capabilities (upgradeable would be ideal) and RAM capacities (MIN 4GB and 6-8GB would be nice).
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"Minimum of 4GB."
Yeah, that's going to happen *now* isn't it.
Give it a couple of years (depending on how the price of memory reacts to the release of the wonderfully memory hogging Vista*).
Because of Vista I foresee firstly a shortfall in supply, and then a large amount of RAM with not many people wanting it. Thus that is the time MacBook Pros will have their 4GB minimum RAM.
*Thus resulting in cheap memory for all us who can't be bothered with Vista just yet.
Oh how I hope my theorem works.
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Huh?
A minimum CAPACITY to hold 4 GB of RAM as the current capacity is limited to 3GB max - in other words, just up it to the same capacity as what Dell's M1710 has.
But with OSX being a 64 bit environment and with support for virtual environments, the additional room is needed.
And RAM is nowhere in short supply, nor will it be.
But just as limiting is the video capabilities. And with the much shorter lifecycle times of video cards, the ability to upgrade video over the life of a machine would be a welcomed feature - and especially to upgrade over the mediocre choices Apple has made thus far, where even when the same V/GPU is used, the VRAM is only half of its 'PC' counterparts.
But quite frankly, anyone who buys expansion memory or video cards from Apple has more money than brains. Buy a base config and then upgrade aftermarket.
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