All iPads MacBook with iPhone chip rumor - what if it runs iPadOS

[TigeRick]

- 1 UBS C port, not 2 (remains to see if there is magsafe or not)
- no Thunderbolt
- likely base RAM will be lower (8 or 12GB) with the option to upgrade to 16, but not more
- battery size, probably a smaller batter to avoid this having longer battery life than the air.
- slightly smaller screen
- storage options will probably cap at 1TB (also possibly slower storage too)
- long term support (may be supported 1-2 years less than the regular M series Macs, just like the iPad A series is supported for 5 years of OS updates instead of 7 for the air/pro), but Apple won't tell this in advance anyway
- webcam quality
- no charger in the box

Geez, A18 Pro with 8+128 and 720P webcam without TB, you guys still think this MacBook SE is NOT piece of junk? Then I have nothing more to say, let's wait for announcement.

 

[Juraj22]

Apparently, the complaint now is that Geekbench scores don't reflect whether the chip can run a "desktop" OS, whatever that means.

I swear, we could have an A20 Pro and some people would still think it would "burn out" the chip and M1 is still better for a "desktop" OS.

Yeah, it looks like it. Many don't realize that modern iPhone CPUs are more powerful than Intel CPU they had in MacBooks not so long ago. Performance per watt advantage Apple has comparing to Intel and AMD is huge. Memory bandwidth is about 60GB/s, M1 has 68GB/s. So yeah nice, power efficient macbook with good price. And if it also comes with C1 modem that would be huge plus.

 

[Digitalguy]

Geez, A18 Pro with 8+128 and 720P webcam without TB, you guys still think this MacBook SE is NOT piece of junk? Then I have nothing more to say, let's wait for announcement.

Try to put words I didn't say in my mouth....
This will be 256, just like the M1. It may be 8 like the M1 but I believe it will more likely be 12. Webcam and TB most people don't care. The reality is the the vast majority of people is not using TB drives.
People have been praising the M1 and are still buying it at 599 and saying it's great value. This will have better performance (snappier with single core), same or probably more RAM and will probably be lighter.
And you call it a piece of junk... Yeah, let's wait for the annoucement...

 

[Digitalguy]

Then this product is essentially a "e-waste" product that the only selling point over an iPad is macOS, which this product's target audience doesn't need (you don't need macOS to do browsing and consume content). I still maintain my opinion though and it makes the most sense to run iPadOS from both business and engineering standpoint. I guess you could be right since Apple does sometimes make illogical decision. I could be biased in my opinion since I really want to see Apple making a new kind of device.

E-waste? This probably will be better than a M1 Macbook base model in many ways, especially if it gets 12GB RAM, and a magsafe port to partially make up for 1 USB port. People have been using M1 Macs to do more than browsing and consuming content. The main thing this will have that iPads don't is Mac apps... and that makes all the difference... Even just that is a reason to get a Mac even if you mainly do browsing and content consumption

 

[nathansz]

Lets put things into perspective:
Intel Core i9-9980HK in Macbook Pro 2019, 8 core, has Geekbench score of 1513, 6960.
Intel Core Ultra 7 258V 2200 MHz (8 cores) (Lunar Lake) 2719, 8749
A18 Pro in iPhone 16, 2 performance cores, 4 efficiency cores, 3440, 8478.
So A18 is about as good as new Intel Lunar lake CPUs.

intel 14700k does 18000+ multicore, running macOS, obviously it's not a mobile chip, just pointing out lunar lake isn't intel's fastest