The MacBook 12-inch Retina discreetly buried last July in favor of a refresh of the range of portable, could return to the catalog of Apple… but with an engine completely different. The fuiteur Fudge, known under the nickname @choco_bit on Twitter, had announced at the end of may that the MacBook is equipped with a chip ARM was going to show up” maybe sooner than expected “.
In a long post on Redditit tire plans on the comet’s ARM, in which he describes the possibility that the small MacBook could be reborn from its ashes with a chip A14x with 8 to 12 cores. Bloomberg announced earlier this week that the A14 dedicated to the future Mac embarquerait 12 cores (8 strong, 4 saving). As a bonus, the computer could connect to the 5G.
More surprising, Fudge also indicates that this future laptop will help bring canadians a keyboard… butterfly. Yes, the same one with the awful reputation, that Apple has replaced it with the Magic Keyboard (in fact, a keyboard mechanism of the scissors traditional). The manufacturer would have continued the development of the butterfly : after all, it is with the MacBook 12-inch Retina as Apple has opened this technology, which helped fine-tune the computer (but at what price).
At WWDC, Apple could lifting the veil on the roadmap of the transition to ARM chips for the Mac. If by chance the manufacturer launched in the wake of a first computer and equipped, it would look certainly not to the general public but to developers.
As in 2005, to pump-prime the transition to Intel processors, Apple could simply return the chassis of a Mac existing — here, the MacBook — with all the necessary to adapt software to the new architecture. At the time, it was a PowerMac driven by a Pentium IV the Apple rented for 999 $ to the developers until the end of the year 2006. Once the machine made, they received an iMac Intel first generation.
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