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Apple make the lions share of their profit from two lines of arm devices, and they build their own processors. It makes absolute sense for them to start stuffing arm in macbooks, especially given how powerful arm chips are these days.

In five years time we'll probably see the end of Intel macbooks, maybe Intel macs entirely.

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Thus far we've only seen ARM chips that can compete with the low end of Intel's offerings. An ARM processor in the 12" Macbook makes sense. I don't see Apple switching the MacBook Pro line to ARM in the next five years, though.

A dual processor MBP would be interesting. A higher performance Intel chip along side an Apple chip. Would allow for a lot of power savings on the go. It could also take advantage of the AI chip that's included in the iPhone for various things.

Other than that, it's a big jump from the A series chips to something like an Intel i9. Maybe if they can make a 10-20 core version of their chip but I don't know how well high core count ARM chips work.

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