Apple plans to launch its first laptops equipped with an ARM chip developed in-house by the fourth quarter of 2020, or even the first of 2021, indicated analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. It does not specify which family will be equipped with it first.
He adds that a completely new exterior design for laptops will be unveiled between the second and third quarter of 2021. Again, he does not go into details.
From this perspective of MacBook abandoning their Intel chip, Kuo’s information aligns with that of Mark Gurman. From April 2018, the journalist from Bloomberg evoked thus a program at Apple – codenamed “Kalamata” – aimed at launching such machines in the course of 2020.
In the shorter term, Ming-Chi Kuo speak the arrival between April and June of new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, all equipped with scissor keyboards like the 16 “models.
Regarding the Pro family, it does not specify whether to expect a new diagonal but various rumors have been pointing for a while towards a 14 “screen to modernize the range of MacBook Pro 13” and better detach it from MacBook Air Retina (read also Apple Store: ready to repair 14 “MacBook Pro?).
These spring laptops would benefit from various hardware optimizations, invisible to the user, with the objective of reducing their production costs.
Finally, with reference to the Coronavirus epidemic, the analyst expects improvements at the end of the month in the portable Mac manufacturing chain. Enough to ensure manufacturing in sufficient volumes for their marketing.
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