Wow. Every year. I envy your income.
If there is a 16 incher it will come in 2 weeks at WWDC, not as a silent launch. And it will likely be a wholly different architecture.
Apple’s not announcing re-architected MBP at WWDC. They just did an annual refresh of the MBP. Developers will be upgrading their MBP in the two weeks before the conference. No way Apple pulls the rug out from under them to announce, “Haha! We punk’d all you chumps! Cause look at this sweet new MacBook Uber Pro you coulda got if you’d waited two weeks! Suckas!”You really expect that could happen?!
I don't think this is going to be a hardware event, except for the possibility of unveiling a new Mac Pro.
Apple most certainly been super-secretly been getting macOS to run on ARM for a few years already. We now know they had OS X running on Intel years before the intel transition occurred. And of course, iOS is derived from macOS, and is ARM native. And now the other way is being demonstrated: iOS code being Marzipan’ed to run on macOS through a recompile.I don't think the ARM CPUs are quite there yet for laptops. Not only that, but MacOS would have to be recompiled for that chipset, so unless they've been super-secretly doing that (which would be a Herculean effort) I think we're still a couple/few years away. .
NeXTSTEP was originally on Motorola 68000 processors. Transitioned to intel several years later.The MAC OS grew out of the Next OS, which was originally hosted on the Intel architecture. They had years of experience with the Intel architecture. Jobs killing the MAC clones destroyed any reason for future PowerPC development. They had few choices other than to adopt the Intel chips, or maybe AMD's chips.
Totally agree with caveat: A12 Bionic is about on par with intel i5 in a MBP 13”. But that’s for an A12 constrained by power and thermal envelope for an iPhone! Give the A12 (or whatever follows) the power and thermal management of a laptop, and there’s reason to believe it’s hunting bigger game!Plus, as I mentioned in the thread I started about Apple moving to ARM, the most powerful ARM they have right now beats the 13" MBP CPU...but comes nowhere near the 15" MBP CPUs let alone the BTO max options.