WWDC '08

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It's a kind of known thing that people don't ask Steve about the minitower, he's been known to fly off the handle about it.

Really?! Wow - complicated guy.

I'm sure (well, hopeful) he'll come round to the notion one day. The iMac will never keep me captivated forever and the Mac Pro is just well out of my price range! A sheepish return to PC ownership is inevitable, unless Apple really think the graphics options for the iMac.

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Well, I wasn't saying that only consoles were getting games, but except FPS and Simulation (Sim City, The Sims) and Strategy (Warcraft, Starcraft) games, consoles are better IMO for gaming. While the consoles are brand new, it's better to play on the consoles. As the consoles get old, it's better to spend money on a good video card and buy games on the PC as much as possible, they will be better than on old hardware/consoles.

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Damn I want an iPhone. I really hoped the old ones would go uber cheap on eBay suddenly with 3G ones only round the corner, but they look as popular as ever. I was playing with an iPod Touch in Birmingham today and I really liked it - the feel of it, the way it all worked... definitely think an iPhone has to be my next phone.

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Damn I want an iPhone. I really hoped the old ones would go uber cheap on eBay suddenly with 3G ones only round the corner, but they look as popular as ever. I was playing with an iPod Touch in Birmingham today and I really liked it - the feel of it, the way it all worked... definitely think an iPhone has to be my next phone.

I put mine up last night on ebay seeing that I will the 3G one when it comes out. Its has 5 hours left and already at 375.00 dollars. (8GB)

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PowerPC Support in Mac OS X 10.6 After All?

Contrary to claims that Mac OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" will drop PowerPC support, Gizmodo has heard that PowerPC support may indeed be living on.

The source, who claimed to get a hold of the 10.6 seed, indicated that work has been done on PowerPC drivers which indicates to them that support for the architecture is unlikely to be dropped this time around.

While this rumor may inspire a bit of hope to those who have late-model PowerPC Macs (including this editor), it should be noted that it runs contrary to running consensus that OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" would only support Intel chips. The circumstances of the report, however, very unlikely, which appears to have been sent in by an anonymous tipster. Meanwhile, the reports of the Intel-only rumor have come from known insiders.

Apple is expected to introduce 10.6 at WWDC, for which we will be providing live keynote coverage at MacRumorsLive.com as well as SMS, Twitter and iPhone updates.

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WWDC seems like it is going to be very exciting. :) I can't believe that I forgot it was tomorrow.

I'm extremely excited to see what Jobs brings us. OS X 10.6, new iPhone, iPhone 2.0 Software, maybe some new displays. All extremely exciting stuff.

Will be watching the stock market closely tomorrow :yes:

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Personally, I think everyone's expecting too much.

What is sad is everyone expects these uber things that have nothing to do with the Developer side of things and then will be disappointed when they don't come to pass... For example, say all this 10.6 stuff is BS and Steve doesn't mention 10.6, people will be posting saying how they feel slighted that there wasn't any 10.6 talk when there was never any reason to think there would be.

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What is sad is everyone expects these uber things that have nothing to do with the Developer side of things and then will be disappointed when they don't come to pass... For example, say all this 10.6 stuff is BS and Steve doesn't mention 10.6, people will be posting saying how they feel slighted that there wasn't any 10.6 talk when there was never any reason to think there would be.

Wouldn't 10.6 be announced and the first seed given out to developers be part of the Developer side?

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Wouldn't 10.6 be announced and the first seed given out to developers be part of the Developer side?

That was only an example, however in all honesty the first seed for 10.6 shouldn't be much more than 10.5.4 at this point, I'd think a new version of XCode with a set of 10.6 calls would be more beneficial at this point.

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+1. I was only expecting iPhone updates and OS X updates, not really hardware. But, you never know.

The displays haven't been updated in 431 days. And they have been updated at WWDC before, so it isn't out of the ordinary for that to happen again, especially considering how long it has been since an update came out.

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What is sad is everyone expects these uber things that have nothing to do with the Developer side of things and then will be disappointed when they don't come to pass... For example, say all this 10.6 stuff is BS and Steve doesn't mention 10.6, people will be posting saying how they feel slighted that there wasn't any 10.6 talk when there was never any reason to think there would be.

If you ask me, you can thank Apple for that. They're one of the best hype companies around.

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The displays haven't been updated in 431 days. And they have been updated at WWDC before, so it isn't out of the ordinary for that to happen again, especially considering how long it has been since an update came out.

They better not update the displays I just bought my self a used one.

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Personally, I think everyone's expecting too much.

I agree too. People always get their hopes up for these kinds of things, and when nothing happens they complain. It's kind of rediculous. This is a developer conference, so I wouldn't expect any new hardware to come out. The only thing I personally think is going to come out is the 3G iPhone. Other than that, I don't see much else hardware wise - no tablet, midrange Mac, etc. Since this is s developer conference, I bet they're going to talk about, oh I don't know developer things. :p Snow Leopard anyone?

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