MacBook 12 with Apple Silicon will last up to 20 hours

A 12-inch MacBook with extended battery life, very extended, capable of going between 15 and 20 hours of continuous use with a single battery charge. This will be the first computer of the bitten apple with an ARM processor designed directly by Apple, at least according to the indiscretion that appeared on the pages of China Daily and which refers to leaks from the supply chain.

A MacBook compact and long-lasting thanks to the ARM chips

Compact form factor and sufficient duration to leave the power supply at home thanks to the A14X chip designed by the Cupertino group and manufactured with a 5 nm production process at the facilities of the Taiwanese partner TSMC. Still referring to the rumors that have appeared in recent days, a custom GPU could also arrive from the same factories that Apple will allocate to its computers, starting from the all-in-one desktop models of the Mac line by the second half of next year. However, at the moment everything is to be taken with a grain of salt.



In the technical data sheet of the “MacBook 12” there will almost certainly be a Retina display. On the software side, the bitten apple will bea> able to leverage the optimizations of the Big Sur system, which is almost close to debut, a turning point in the evolutionary path of macOS.

The aforementioned A14X processor, known internally by the code name Tonga , it should also be destined for future tablets of the iPad Pro range. The same source of the rumor also refers to the A14 chip designed for smartphones of the iPhone 12 family.