First Apple Silicon MacBooks Could Launch on November 17

Apple held separate events this year to announce theApple Watch,iPad Air, and thelatest iPhone 12 lineup. While the company had announced its plans totransition to ARM for MacsatWWDC 2020in July earlier this year, a new rumor suggests that the company willhost a new event in November to announce the first ARM Mac.

The information comes from Apple tipster Jon Prosser. According to his sources, the company’s NovemberMac event will take place on the 17th of November. He further claims that Apple will announce the event on November 10.

To confirm, there IS a November ARM Mac event.

I’m hearing November 17th. 🗓

— Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser)October 16, 2020

Going by current rumors, Apple may launch the 12-inch MacBook with Apple Silicon chip. In addition, reputed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had predicted earlier this year that Apple will refresh the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by the end of the year.

Apple is striving to make the transition to ARM Macs as seamless as possible, thanks to Rosetta 2. With Rosetta 2, Apple is attempting to make sure that existing Mac apps on Intel chips run without any hiccups on the new CPU.

This is not the first time we’re hearing about Apple’s alleged plans to host a new event. Earlier this week,Mark Gurman from Bloomberg hadreportedthat the first Mac laptop with Apple’s own processor will launch in Novemberalong with ‘other products’.

In case you’re wondering, at least one of the other productslikely to be announced at the event isAirTags– Apple’s solution to help you keep track of your products, similar toTile. According to Prosser, AirTags may also be coming next month.

Meanwhile, it seems unlikely that Apple’s rumored over-ear headphones, theAirPods Studio, will get launched this year. Prosser says that the launch of these headphones may get delayed until March 2021.

Subin B

Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.

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