The tech rumor mill almost lost its wind vanes last week when product identifiers for no fewer than 15 new Macs leaked all at once. Apple journalists, normally starved for information during the post-WWDC summer months, were suddenly able to gorge on the entire M5 roadmap, with four M6-based MacBook Pro models thrown in for good measure… plus a little surprise that doesn’t involve an M-class processor at all.
Labeled J700, the wild-card entry in Apple’s upcoming Mac portfolio doesn’t appear to belong to any existing Mac family. (There are familiar patterns to Mac identifiers: MacBook Pros normally end with a 14 or 16, MacBook Airs with 13 or 15, and so on. This looks like something new.) The most likely explanation is that it’s a cheap MacBook based around the A18 Pro iPhone processor, a device that has been floated for years but recently popped up in the Serious Rumor Mill. Yes, you heard that right: Apple engineers are expected to use the chip from an iPhone in a laptop.
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