We have talked a lot in recent months about the possibility that Apple may sooner or later start make your processors for MacBooks. In fact, according to Mark Gurman, for the year 2019-2020, most of the equipment that Apple puts on the market will be managed by a processor designed and manufactured by Apple.
While we wait for the launch of the first model with this processor, from China, the publication Digitimes, states that the manufacturer Pegatron, will be in charge of manufacturing the first MacBook with an ARM processor, a kind of hybrid between MacBook and iPad with a touch screen, an idea that Apple has always been in charge of denying.
Apple's A-series processors, far outweigh the raw performance of many laptops that we can currently find on the market. According to this medium, the first MacBook with an ARM processor would be the entry model to the Macbook range, so everything indicates that the life cycle of the MacBook Air is about to end.
9to5Mac spoke a few days ago about a project called Star, a project that presents us with a device with keyboard, touch screen and LTE connection, thus confirming the news that Digitimes has published, about the first MacBook with an ARM processor.
The Star project offered us the N84 device as the first product, according to other sources, although at this point, there is no agreement, since other publications claim the N84 could be the low-cost iPhone X how much has been rumored in recent months and that it would hit the market before the end of the year. If we consider that Apple has never released a low-cost iPhone, it is more than likely that the number N84 refers to the MacBook with an ARM processor.
Although code names can be misinterpreted, as we have indicated, what is clear is that Apple is considering a major change in its MacBook line. It is not clear if a hybrid laptop with iOS and macOS (something that Tim Cook has denied on several occasions), or perhaps Apple will pull a new operating system from its sleeve that is compatible with both platforms, if the idea is not that they converge. on one only.