On July 10, it was reported that Guo Mingxuan, the king of Apple, reported that Apple would mass produce MacBooks equipped with Apple Silicon, a desktop processor developed by Apple, this year. Earlier, at the WWDC held on June 23, China time, Apple announced that it would take two years for the Mac to complete the transition from Intel to self developed processors.
Guo Mingxuan predicted that the first batch of MacBook Pro (in the fourth quarter of this year) and MacBook Air (in the fourth quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year) equipped with Apple Silicon would be 13.3-inch MacBook Pro, while the second batch would be 14 inch and 16 inch MacBook Pro mass produced from the end of the second quarter of next year to the third quarter of next year, and the latter two would also use new appearance designs.
The forecast also mentioned that if the situation is optimistic, Apple will also reduce the price of the MacBook Air (specifically the Apple Silicon version), which will stimulate the annual sales of Apple computers to rise by about 2 million units. Although affected by the epidemic, the demand for MacBook product line this year is still higher than expected, and the expected shipment this year is adjusted to 16-17 million units, 1.5 million units higher than 2019.
If Guo Mingxuan's prediction is correct, will the users who buy MacBook with Intel processors by the end of this year be "entering the national army in 49 years"? The answer is no. Although the energy consumption ratio of Intel processors is not good, their absolute performance is still far better than that of Apple's self-developed processors in the first one or two years. The situation of "entering the national army in 49 years" should not occur until the end of next year.
Of course, even if the appeal is stronger than that of Apple, it will not only take two or three years to change the platform, but also double version systems will be updated at the same time, as well as many software compatibility problems.
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