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Comment by dijit

It will almost certainly be a low end macbook. In fact, there's a non-pro 'macbook'[0] that already exists which would be perfect, it was discontinued a year ago, but used ultra-low power CPUs. In fact when they were talking about them (prior to release) they thought they would have ARM CPU's back then.

They are fanless and have a 5W thermal envelope, which fits in with the current A12X too.

The major criticisms of the design at the time was: Butterfly keyboard, the Single USB-C port and the speed of the device (Intel CORE-M is truly, truly painful). But for a $600-$700 machine with an ARM CPU? that's insanely competitive, and is in-line with the "basic" macbook branding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_(2015%E2%80%932019)

parent dijit 6 years ago

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