Apple event: Allegedly three MacBook devices based on ARM

Source: Hardware Luxx added 03rd Nov 2020

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Yesterday evening, after numerous rumors, Apple announced the official date of its third annual keynote. In a week, so already on 10. November, it should be ready. The event with the slogan “One more thing” should bring new Mac hardware and software in particular. As usual, Apple does not reveal in advance what exactly it will be.

The Bloomberg news agency has now published a report that has been compiled to provide an insight into the new products. Accordingly, Apple is said to have already started production of three new MacBook devices based on ARM. These should include a new MacBook Air with 13 inches and new MacBook Pro models 13 and 16 Include customs. Externally, the devices should not differ much from their predecessors, but as is well known under the hood. As early as the summer, Apple announced that it would no longer equip its MacBook and iMac devices with Intel processors in future, but with specially developed processors based on ARM. The devices expected in a week should be the first notebooks from Apple based on ARM.

The SoCs should also be installed on the iPhone 12 built-in A 14 are based on Bionic, which is currently far behind the competition in terms of SoCs due to its high performance. Furthermore, Apple should work on an ARM variant of the Mac Pro. The size of the computer should even be halved thanks to the more efficient chips. It will be interesting to see how much performance Apple will get out of its premium model using the ARM architecture. At the moment, available ARM-based systems tend to be in the lower performance segment. In addition, the iMac based on ARM will get a new design. A presentation of the two desktop solutions is not expected on 10. November give, but on a separate keynote in the near future.