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I just got a 16" MBP... Still, the waiting game sucks too. Apple said their first Arm mac will come out at the end of the year, but that could well be a very low end Mac mini, or Macbook Air. It's unknown when the pro line will come out.



There was an article posted here on HN yesterday speculating that the first ARM Mac will be a new 13” MacBook Pro.


That might explain why all but the top line version of the barely-refreshed 13+ MacBook Pro are missing Intel's 10th-gen processors.

Sandbag the upgrade for the 13" so it's not that desirable and you won't cannibalize your own demand for the release of the first Apple Silicon machine


If that's the case, Apple is deliberately hindering their intel version so that the future ARM version destroys it in benchmarks.

They'll win anyway. But comparing a 2021-ish Apple ARM laptop against intel's early 2019 chip isn't particularly fair.

People will see the benchmark as a blow to intel (and it is), but the fair benchmarks would be a 2021 ARM mac against the best intel has to offer




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