LEAK: ARM MacBook 12” Silicon reportedly costs just $799. Also have 15-20 hour battery life 😱

[flibberti-gibbeti]

Just came across a tweet from a “leaker” about the new silicon MacBooks. Not sure whether this guy is reliable or not but if this is true it’s just simply ridiculous. 20 hour battery life? For $799? What in the...? ?

Looks like A14x is going to blow Intel out of the water when it comes to performance and battery efficiency. Thoughts?

 

[MrGunnyPT]

Sounds perfect to me, make it thin bezel and I’ll get it

 

[MayaTlab]

If we assume that the A14x will be an upcoming iPad Pro chip, and that just like previous iPad Pro chips it won't support Thunderbolt, which Apple has already confirmed that Macs will use, as well as already claimed that the Macs would get a specific lineup of chips, then this makes the specifics of this rumour quite unlikely IMO.
I'm also dubious that Apple would release yet another smaller than 13" notebook... every time they tried it didn't stick around on a permanent basis like their 13 or 15-16 Macs.
Provided battery capacity and display remain the same as the current MacBook Air and the chip is just as efficient as the iPad Pro's chips when idling or under intermittent load then I can envision a 15hrs battery life though.

 

[mjohansen]

Does he have any kind of track record?

 

[hallux]

Still only a 720p Facetime camera?

 

[arn]

You guys realize this account is < 2 months old. Is posting a ton of random "leaks". Also predicted we'd see an iMac, AirPods Studio and HomePod mini this week?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1286073406060814336

 

[leman]

That's not a "leak". That's a random guy who posts random stuff on Twitter.

 

[MacPoulet]

Still only a 720p Facetime camera?

That’s better than the 480p camera the 12” MacBook had...

 

[bsamcash]

Butterfly keyboard?

 

[jerryk]

Geez still a 720 camera.

 

[thekev]

If we assume that the A14x will be an upcoming iPad Pro chip, and that just like previous iPad Pro chips it won't support Thunderbolt, which Apple has already confirmed that Macs will use, as well as already claimed that the Macs would get a specific lineup of chips, then this makes the specifics of this rumour quite unlikely IMO.

Thunderbolt seems to be an optional component to usb4. This shouldn't be tied to intel specifically, but we'll see what they do. Apple supports things as long as they suport them. I myself am skeptical of anything that mentions a butterfly keyboard.

 

[satchmo]

That's not a "leak". That's a random guy who posts random stuff on Twitter.

Exactly. I could have tweeted that and maybe I did.

 

[flibberti-gibbeti]

That's not a "leak". That's a random guy who posts random stuff on Twitter.

Yup. Generally I think the entire leaker community sucks monkey balls and 99% of the time have no clue what they’re talking about but imagine if Apple could actually pull off a 15-20 hour battery life. I just want it to be true sooo bad ?

 

[flibberti-gibbeti]

Sounds perfect to me, make it thin bezel and I’ll get it

Nah. Don’t think they’re going to redesign it this year. They’ll do it next year probably.

 

[psingh01]

iPad Pro gets 10hr battery life, but the MacBook will have 20hr? Maybe if the battery is double the size or more on the Mac. Even the iPad could do that now.

 

[MayaTlab]

iPad Pro gets 10hr battery life, but the MacBook will have 20hr? Maybe if the battery is double the size or more on the Mac. Even the iPad could do that now.

The iPad Pro 12.9" has a 36.71Whr battery, the current MacBook Air 49.9Whr I believe, but the iPad Pro runs a 120hz screen with different characteristics while the MacBook Air doesn't, and the latter runs Mac OS vs iPad OS. Besides the MacBook Air AS chip is likely to differ in some ways vs the iPad Pro one and the internal may continue to exhibit fundamental differences. So it's difficult to simply take battery capacity and scale it up as an indication. I'm not sure that 20hrs is realistic but 15 seems very plausible to me.

 

[Joelist]

Guys this is fake. Known Twitter scammer.

 

[ChromeCloud]

Not gonna happen at that price.

 

[Boil]

MacBook - starting at US$1,299.00

12 P cores / 4 E cores / 24 GPU cores - Monolithic SoC design
LPDDR5 RAM Unified Memory Architecture - 16GB / 32GB / 64GB
NVMe SSD (single NAND blade) - 512GB / 1TB / 2TB
Two USB4 (TB3) ports
14" display / 2560x1600 / 120Hz ProMotion / Mini-LED / 4K webcam / FaceID / stereo speakers

 

[Jack Neill]

Regardless if its fake, I would gladly take a 2020 Air with a A14X. 799 seems to low, if an Intel i3 can pull 999 a A14X with almost twice the juice can pull 1299.

 

[Bug-Creator]

Fake or not, Apple could pull that off and still have some margin, so the only question is why they would or would not do it.

If they think they could gain some marketshare and more important mindshare with it leading to sucking more people deeper into the ecosystem, they will do it (not that different to the original iMac/iBook 20+ years ago)

If the think it would just cannibalize MacBookPro sales they will price such an unit similar to the 12" rMB.

 

[D.T.]

Guys this is fake. Known Twitter scammer.

Wait, I pre-paid him for one of those machines, did I get screwed ... ?

 

[BigMcGuire]

Butterfly keyboard?

I was surprised that it took to post #9 for this to come out. lol. Thought there was a lot more hatred of the butterfly keyboard than that! That alone makes me wtf this, not even counting the account age.

 

[LeeW]

It says $799 (at least), even if the leaker is reliable, its not going to cost $799, of that I am 100% confident.

 

[lixuelai]

$799 seems reasonable. iPad Pro is $799 base and the components are likely more expensive on the iPad Pro compared to a MacBook.