The well-known insider Min-Chi Kuo shared his own information about Apple’s plans to release a line of computers based on ARM-based processors. According to him, the first will be the 13,3-inch MacBook Pro. This will happen, as promised by Apple at WWDC 2020, later this year.

At the same time, Min-Chi clarifies that this laptop will most likely be identical in design to the current MacBook Pro 13, which was released in May this year.

Further, the roadmap for ARM computers looks like this:

• In late winter – early spring, Apple will release the MacBook Air on ARM. Probably, this release will be postponed to the March event;
• Apple is also working on updating the lineup of both “firmware”. But you shouldn’t wait for it until the middle of the year.

Probably, the new “firmware”, which will be shown in about a year, will be released in a new design. The smaller of the models will change exactly its appearance. The 13,3-inch model is likely to become the 14-inch model.

Min-Chi said nothing about the iMac. But the fact is that he spoke about him earlier:

This will be the junior model. The display diagonal will increase from 21 to 24 inches. Probably, its ARM version will be released along with the aforementioned MacBook Pro 13.

On the other hand, the logic is not very clear: the MacBook Pro 13 ARM will be released at the end of this year, and six months later, in mid-2021, its successor will be. Quite a strange decision. Although Ming-Chi is a trusted insider, whose words are worth trusting.

What kind of ARM is this?

If you have this question, then you probably have not heard about the hottest news of the past WWDC: Apple is abandoning Intel processors in favor of its own solutions.

With the change in the label of the “stones”, their architecture will also change: from x86 to ARM. An architecture is a set of instructions that a processor can execute

Many people associate ARM with mobile solutions. For example, your iPhones and iPads are equipped with ARM processors. And all Android smartphones have received ARM processors.

However, this connection is not entirely correct. For example, the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fujitsu Fugaku, received an ARM processor.

But changing architecture is not a quick process. Apple hopes that Intel-based macs will no longer be available in two years. During this time, the vast majority of applications should have already been rewritten for ARM, so that users can safely buy Apple devices and not worry whether something will work for them or not.