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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by EtienneK on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:20PM (#23604846)
There was an article posted here on HN yesterday speculating that the first ARM Mac will be a new 13” MacBook Pro.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by skrtskrt on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:54PM (#23605515)
That might explain why all but the top line version of the barely-refreshed 13+ MacBook Pro are missing Intel's 10th-gen processors.

Sandbag the upgrade for the 13" so it's not that desirable and you won't cannibalize your own demand for the release of the first Apple Silicon machine

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by awill on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:50PM (#23620072)
If that's the case, Apple is deliberately hindering their intel version so that the future ARM version destroys it in benchmarks.

They'll win anyway. But comparing a 2021-ish Apple ARM laptop against intel's early 2019 chip isn't particularly fair.

People will see the benchmark as a blow to intel (and it is), but the fair benchmarks would be a 2021 ARM mac against the best intel has to offer

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