You read it here first: Prediction on Apple ARM transition

[jdc]

apple beat everyone to it -- because this has been their plan the first day after they switched to intel all those years ago...

[rz]

I'm not the target for any of these. I almost exclusively use my computer at a desk. I have a work laptop (Windows) that does go between home and work, but is always connected to power. I couldn't care less what the battery life is. I have a Macbook and a Macbook Pro, but the longest I've ever used either on battery was probably an hour.

[decay]

Maybe when solid state batteries are in production...
https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-devel...te-battery

[freeradical]

decay wrote:
Maybe when solid state batteries are in production...
https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-devel...te-battery

Even THINNER Laptops...Yay...:devil:

[anonymouse1]

ULTRA-CAPACITORS!

decay wrote:
Maybe when solid state batteries are in production...
https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-devel...te-battery

[Rolando]

My thoughts are since the Ax processors pretty much smash Intel watt for watt and gHz for GHz, how many could the stack in Pro models to emulate Intel processors ?

[Filliam H. Muffman]

We will have to wait to see if the performance is comparable. I don't think the iPad Pro currently has the performance of the 13" MBP, so your equivalencies not quite level. Apple always always favors low weight over battery life. I expect it will mean a 3 ounce decrease in weight.

anonymouse1 wrote:
You're looking at an inadequate metric--the real question is what is the battery capacity on the 12.9 compared with the MacBook.

So the 12.9 iPad battery (largest iPad battery) has a capacity of 36.71 watt-hours.

The latest 13" MacBook Pro has a capacity of 58.2 watt-hours.

So the MBP has 50% more battery capacity. If the energy consumption drops to iPad levels, you're looking at 15 hours, as opposed to 10 hours. It might be even better than that if the CPU is passively cooled, eliminated the need for a heatsink and fan. That could allow the batter to be bigger.

Conversely, you could make the battery smaller and thus make the MBP smaller, while keeping the same 10 hour battery life.....

[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Where is the "amazing battery life" going to come from? 2020 10.2" iPad and 12.9" iPad Pro are rated at 10 hours. This is pretty much identical to the 11" and 13" MBA models.

[sekker]

S. Pupp wrote:
Goodbye to Bootcamp, though.
The ability to run Windows software natively was a big boon to my productivity.

But do you need that now? I haven't had to dual (or triple boot, like I did for awhile when I needed a LINUX environment for some code) boot in years. And with M$ going platform agnostic, even less reason in the future.