To date, analyst and resource leaks in Asia mean a new MacBook (or MacBook) will be announced before the end of this year.
Rumors have focused on a small 12-inch MacBook and a 13-inch MacBook Pro on Apple’s A-series silicon.
And reports imply that Apple is a variant of the A14 processor.
This makes something predictable, as the A1four is already used on the iPad Air four and iPhone 12 that have just come out.
Benchmarks seem encouraging for the A1four, especially if Apple uses a higher number of cores than the A1four on iPad Air Four and iPhone 12.
Reasonable expectations include:
A14 Reference Points: A14 Geekbench benchmarks are near or above the tenth generation Intel Core i7-1068NG7 grades, the fastest processor used in the existing 13-inch MacBook Pro. Multi-core scores are close (note that the newer iPad Pro A12z has higher multi-core scores than the A14 and Core i7 mentioned above).
Long-lasting battery life: This is probably the ultimate explanation for why Apple is turning to its own silicon (another way of looking at it is watt-consistent functionality, a measure of energy efficiency). Long battery life, combined with intelligent functionality, is predictable. Depending on the battery life of the iPad Pro 2020 and iPad Air 4, the result is a particularly longer battery life than current MacBook Pros.
5G in spite of everything: it’s not a big leap to see Apple despite everything offering the optional 5G, as it does on the iPhone 12, plus windows computer brands like Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo are starting to offer it 5G on optional computers, which would eventually be needed for any portable device.
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I am a founding member of CNET News and Hardware Editor at CNET, a generation journalist who contributed to the New York Times, and a reporter and editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, the latter in Japan, where I lived for ten years. Fox News reporter.