Apple reportedly will launch Arm-based MacBook Air and Pro laptops at the ‘One More Thing’ event

Apple’s upcoming “One More Thing” event, announced this morning and scheduled for November 10, it will be the first time the company has launched an Apple laptop featuring its own custom-based Arm CPU.

Apple plans to debut three new laptops next week, one 13-inch MacBook Air and two different-sized MacBook Pro models (13-inches and 16-inches) that ditch Intel processors, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

We have a strong hunch that this event — which will be held in the iPhone only last month and one dedicated to the latest Apple Watch and iPad in September — will be when Apple launches its Arm-based Mac, which the company confirmed.

But it wasn’t clear, at least until Bloomberg’s report, what models might get the custom CPUs first. According to Gurman, a redesigned iMac, a new Mac mini, and a half-sized Mac Pro, all powered by Apple chip architecture, are also in the works.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the announcement of its own Arm-based Macs that the transition to fully supporting its lineup with the custom chipset would take about two years. That gives us a rough timeline of when we might see other computers outside the MacBook line get updated with Arm variants.

Apple has been testing how this might affect its software ecosystem by letting developers create and run software on a Mac powered by an iPad Pro processor. The core changes the Arm-based Macs will facilitate — most importantly, the ability to run iOS software designed for the iPhone and iPad on Mac computers — also enabled by the upcoming macOS Big Sur update, which will bring iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. That OS update is likely to arrive or receive an official release date next week alongside the new MacBook devices.

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