Apple WWDC 2006 Expectations
Today was the first day of Apple's annual World Wide Developers Conference. The event usually comes with a host of announcements and product unveilings. This year's WWDC06 is one that's quite important for Apple because the company will be releasing a major operating system upgrade, by the name of Leopard. And I bet the next will Panther. Humph. What's with the cat species? Oh, well. Leopard will be Apple's most important upgrade so far because it includes a host of brand new features and not just some updates. For example, Leopard includes a new program called Time Machine, which can (as its name suggests) go back in "time". Basically if you delete something for good. (Emptied your trash with something important in it). You can go back in "time" with Time Machine to when you deleted it and then restore it, by clicking (duh!) the restore button. Dailytech's Tuan Nguyen went on to say that:"Although Leopard does not appear to be scheduled for release in 2006, hopes are up. The new OS will integrate new desktop searching features competitive with other solutions such as Google's Desktop Search and the searching features being introduced with Windows Vista. Other notable features are VoIP integration and there has been talk about Leopard including geographical mapping features directly integrated into the OS."
Apple's new Mac Pro will be using two brand new Intel Woodcrest Xeon processors, (that's four frickin' cores!) which are basically rebadged Core 2's, but still...the Mac Pro is a monster with up two terabytes of storage and three videocards (optional). It can hold up to 16 GB of memory and has two 16x SuperDrives with double-layer support. The price will start at $2499.99 USD. I believe that Apple will be introducing a single-chip Core 2 Duo desktop line. And I think (considering Apple's current naming scheme) that it will called iMac Pro or something similiar, like just Mac.
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