The next MacBooks will represent a significant qualitative leap over their predecessors

This year hopefully moore's law is fulfilled and we can see the corresponding updates of the MacBook and MacBook Pro with the latest Intel Skylake processors, where the improvements will not be focused so much in energy consumption and small improvements but in offering superior performance in graphics, performance and of course the battery life.

Typically annual updates to Intel chips bring speed improvements of around 10 percent over their predecessors, however thanks to a major redesign of the microarchitecture internal processor, it is more than likely that we will see an increase of at least 20 percent and that Apple is already using in its latest 27 ″ iMac.

In addition to overall performance, the new Skylake chips bring Intel's latest integrated graphics, the Intel HD 530 GPU, faster than its previous generation equivalent, the HD 4600 used in Haswell chips that are included in most. of current Macs. According to the data sheet, Skylake supports up to 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, a memory faster running at 2.133 MHzWhile Apple is unlikely to give a 64GB upgrade option, it is likely to offer the 32GB option instead, which is still more than enough for most users.

On the other hand, with Skylake all MacBooks will already have the PCI Express 3.0 port, which means an even faster data bus also with transfer speeds of almost double that of PCI Express 2.0. This coupled with the Thunderbolt 3 compatibility, means that we will see compatible peripherals later and that they will be faster too.

Keep in mind that Thunderbolt 3 achieves data transfers of up to 40 Gbps, twice as much as Thunderbolt 2 and what can with two 4K 60Hz monitors through a single port in addition to being compatible with other protocols such as USB, PCI Express and DisplayPort, with 10GB ethernet connections. Also this new protocol increases its power capacity, that is, it now supports up to 100W, which means that the MacBook should be charged faster as well.

Finally the manufacturing process of these chips is 14nm, being able to create smaller chips, more efficient and less hot. This will make your computer's internal fans blow up less when they are called upon for heavy tasks as well as improving overall power consumption and battery life.

If all this is used well by Apple with a software to match, or even a redesign to internal level of hardware and equipment look, we can be before the best renewal of the MacBook line for a long time.