Apple breaks the annual Mac upgrade cycle

From CNET: For the past two years, Apple's WWDC keynote has included significant Mac hardware announcements and introductions alongside the software and OS news the conference is built around. The MacBook Air, in particular, has been tied to the WWDC June timetable for its past couple of generations.

At WWDC 2012, the Air was updated with new components, including new Intel processors. Also announced was a new MacBook Pro family, featuring a higher-resolution Retina display, a concept that has since become common in higher-end Windows laptops.

One year later, at WWDC 2013, the MacBook Air line, both the 11-inch and 13-inch models, received yet another upgrade, to an even newer generation of Intel hardware, promising better performance, longer battery life, and faster graphics. The MacBook Pro was similarly upgraded several months later. WWDC 2013 brought us a first look at the radically redesigned Mac Pro desktop, which represented the single biggest change to an Apple computer's overall design in years.

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