Big reveals from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference

Big reveals from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference

by: Jordan C Woika, BestReviews Staff

Posted: Jun 5, 2023 / 04:52 PM EDT

Updated: Jun 5, 2023 / 05:02 PM EDT

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Apple typically has at least two big conferences each year. There's the main event, usually in September, revealing the latest iPhone and more. Then there's the Worldwide Developers Conference, usually in June, packed with its own reveals and updates. For this year's WWDC, Apple opened the show with fresh versions of several Mac lines, followed through with big operating system and application updates and closed with a product that could forever change the way we live our lives: the Apple Vision Pro.

This alternate reality headset will let you view and interact with both your living and digital worlds like never before, blending both environments into one seamless experience. You can throw everything you might see on a screen into your world and interact with those screens with the flick of your eyes, wrists and fingers. You can also change your reality completely, making everything around you appear to be somewhere else entirely, such as in the mountains or woods. If someone in the real world wants to talk to you, you don't even have to take the headset off. Instead, a projection of your eyes is displayed on the exterior of the Vision Pro so your friends, family or coworkers can see your unobstructed expressions. It launches sometime early next year and costs $3,500.

Apple announced three new Macs. All three can be preordered, with items shipping starting next week.

This year's WWDC introduced a host of exciting changes to the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems.

Besides the main operating system updates, Apple announced a handful of smaller but no less intriguing software updates.

Apple MacBook Air 15-inch

The thinnest, lightest ever laptop is perfect for professionals and students. It can have up to 24 gigabytes of unified memory, up to two terabytes of data storage using a solid-state drive and comes in four colors.

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Apple Mac Studio With M2 Max Chip

The M2 Max version of the new Mac Studio comes with either a 30- or 38-core GPU with 32 GB of unified memory and 512 GB of SSD data storage. It also has two USB-C ports on the front.

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Apple Mac Studio With M2 Ultra Chip

The M2 Ultra version of the new Mac Studio comes with either a 60- or 76-core GPU with 64 GB of unified memory and 1 TB of SSD data storage. It also has two Thunderbolt 4 ports on the front.

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Apple Mac Pro Tower

The tower version of the new Mac Pro is ready for the desktops of professionals with the need for a blisteringly fast and powerful computer. The frame can be fitted with wheels if you need to move it around.

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Apple Mac Pro Rack

The rack version of the new Mac Pro is the same powerful computer but with the ability to be rack mounted. It has up to 192 GB of unified memory and up to 8 TB of SSD data storage.

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