Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

So that November 10th Apple event might see a full slate of Mac laptops with Apple Silicon inside

them.

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Sources are telling Mark Germin and Debbie Wu that production has ramped up for new 13 and 16 inch MacBook Pros as well as new 13 inch MacBook Airs, all of which will

sport new Apple Silicon chips inside them. But they'll also not be getting any

major design changes.

These are the computers that we are expecting to be announced at that recently

announced November 10th Apple event.

Quote, Apple and overseas suppliers are ramping up production of three Mac laptops with Apple processors,

new 13 inch and 16 inch Macbook pros, and a new 13 inch Macbook air,

according to people familiar with the matter.

FoxCon is assembling the two smaller laptops,

while Quanta Computer is building the larger Macbook Pro.

The smaller models are further ahead in production,

and at least those two laptops will be shown at next week's event.

Beyond the processor switch, the devices won't have significant design changes.

The first Mac processors from Apple will be based on the A14 chip found in the latest

iPhones and iPad air, and tests inside Apple indicate improved power efficiency over the

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