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In June, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo said the lower-cost MacBook would beryllium equipped with the A18 Pro, which debuted successful the iPhone 16 Pro models past year. Soon after, MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris besides discovered evidence that pointed towards the laptop being powered by the A18 Pro, and DigiTimes reported the same.
It is rather imaginable that Apple has already finalized specs for the lower-cost MacBook, truthful it precise good mightiness beryllium the A18 Pro successful the first-generation model.
However, successful a station connected Chinese societal media level Weibo past week, an relationship known arsenic "Mobile Phone Chip Expert" claimed that Apple is considering utilizing the A19 Pro spot successful the lower-cost MacBook. If so, it is unclear if it would beryllium the 6-core GPU mentation successful the iPhone 17 Pro models, oregon the 5-core GPU mentation successful the iPhone Air.
"Mobile Phone Chip Expert" was 1 of the sources who said astatine slightest 1 iPhone 17 exemplary would beryllium equipped with 12GB of RAM, truthful they person a spot of a way record.
Obviously, the A19 Pro would beryllium faster than the A18 Pro, which has akin show arsenic the M1 chip. It would besides beryllium bully quality for RAM, arsenic the A19 Pro has 12GB of unified memory, whereas the A18 Pro has 8GB. The full caller Mac lineup has started with astatine slightest 16GB of RAM since past year, with the lone enactment with 8GB being the five-year-old MacBook Air with an M1 chip, which is sold exclusively by Walmart for $599.
Both the A18 Pro and A19 Pro deficiency Thunderbolt support, truthful the MacBook would apt beryllium equipped with regular USB-C ports. They would look the aforesaid arsenic Thunderbolt ports, but information transportation speeds would beryllium constricted to up to 10 Gbps. Plus, lone a azygous outer show would beryllium natively supported, but DisplayLink adapters let for more.
Kuo expects the lower-cost MacBook to person a 13-inch display, and helium said imaginable colour options for the laptop included silver, blue, pink, and yellow.
Apple often announces caller Macs successful October, truthful possibly the lower-cost MacBook volition debut adjacent month. Otherwise, March 2026 is the adjacent apt timeframe.
This article, "Will the Rumored Lower-Cost MacBook Use an A18 Pro oregon A19 Pro Chip?" archetypal appeared connected MacRumors.com
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