Isn’t the MacBook 12 the likely contender to eventually move to Apple’s own ARM based chips since they run fanless and allow for a thin and light profile as well as insane battery life. Toss in LTE like the iPads and you have an always connected device to compete against Windows always connected PC’s. If iOS 13 were to add mouse support could we see an ARM based touch screen iOSBook running iOS with ports of some MacOS applications to follow? It would certainly solve the problem of productivity Apps on iPad with no mouse support. It would also fit with the vision of converging OS’s and moving to ARM. I may be just dreaming but Apple under Jobs always seemed to wow us. The iPad Pro already have storage surpassing the MacBook 12. If they are going to move off Intel the MacBook 12 seems like the most appropriate Mac to do it with.
I agree with the MacBook getting an ARM soc/CPU.
I don’ t agree with it getting a touchscreen and IOS. It will get an ARM based MacOs, without touch and just keyboard and trackpad/mouse support, no Apple Pencil, etc.
It will be the first Mac to get an ARM soc and will be the front runner to more macs with ARM cpu’ s.
Apple will never merge Mac(OS) with IOS, they have already been clear about that.
First ARM MacBooks won’t have Promotion or Faceid either. They want to keep costs down and make it a $999 MacBook for a 128gb version.
So the shell of a MacBook 12 inch with the same display, and maybe, but a big maybe .... adding touchid and a second usb-c , but with an ARM soc, and MacOs . That will be it.
Without promotion, pencil support, touchscreen, faceid, back camera and intel cpu, ssd and using a (modified?) iPad Pro motherboard , etc apple should be able to keep cost down compared to either an $999 iPad Pro or the MacBook. So I have high hopes for a $999 base model of a MacBook.
The only thing apple has to improve over the a12x in the iPad pro, that is already a great soc, is ram. Perhaps they can use the 6gb variant of the 1TB iPad pro’ s , but I hope they can make a 8gb version.(a12m or a13m?)
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Apple owns the trademark to 'iBook'. Prune out the "OS" out of iOSBook and ta-da. A name they already own.
I think the iBook name is destined for a foldable I device.
But could be an iBook, who knows. But PowerBook name is also still available.