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Apple reveals the 'One More Thing' case on November 10th.
Apple revealed the "One More Thing" event on November 10th, which is expected to see the company launch the first Arm-based Macs running on Apple Silicon chips instead of the Intel processors that the company has been using since 2005.
The vocabulary here is particularly striking: the term "One More Thing" has long been used by Apple — especially former CEO Steve Jobs — in keynotes for new product announcements. The last time Apple used the term was for the 2017 launch of the iPhone X.
Even the augmented reality teaser that Apple has recently included in its event invitations seems to point to a Mac, showing an animated Apple logo rising up to the viewer just as it would when opening the lid of one of the company's laptops.
This is super cool. The Apple event logo in AR resembles opening and closing a MacBook.
— Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) November 2, 2020
A new MacBook powered by Apple Silicon is coming. pic.twitter.com/R6pIpJTWPC
Apple announced plans to switch from Intel processors to its own Apple Silicon CPUs back in June at WWDC, promising that the first computers to use Arm-based chips would be out later in 2020. The business claims that it is making the move for similar reasons to its transition to Intel chips in 2005: Apple says that it can produce higher performance with lower power consumption from its own arm-based effort than it can with Intel's processors.
While Apple is rumored to start with a MacBook of some sort for its original Arm computer, the company's ambitions are for its entire product line-up — from laptops all the way to desktops — to use Apple chips at some point down the line.
Along with the latest Macs, it is also possible that the event will see the unveiling of MacOS 11 Big Sur, which was also revealed at WWDC and has been in beta for months.
