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Intel Inside: The CPUs Apple could stuff in the next MacBooks

With Intel’s recent introduction of its 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs, it’s again that time of the year when the reality TV show called MacBook gets to act as a romance-seeking laptop looking for new internals.

While the future of the MacBook could see a marriage with an Apple-made ARM processor, the immediate future of the MacBook sees the continuation of the courtship with Intel and its x86 CPUs.

Using our knowledge of previous MacBook configurations and what other laptop makers are using, we’re willing to make a few forecasts on what to expect, and what kind of performance difference they will make.

MACBOOK: MINOR CHANGES AHEAD

Of all the laptops Apple currently sells,

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