British chip manufacturer ARM has recently announced production of its Cortex A76 processor, promising laptop-class performance, by its tentative release in 2019.

Most recently, however, Apple has secured a patent that will allow the tech giant to experiment with a chassis design that might bring it closer to Microsoft Surface Book, called “Living Hinge”.

How are these laptops different? The latest rumors indicate that these new Macs will be ARM-based, support LTE connectivity, feature a SIM card slot, GPS, compass, EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) bootloader, will be water resistant, and feature a touchscreen display.

This pattern isn’t new, as Apple is known for suspending availability of some of its product categories, as impending updates loom, alas unofficially This could very well mean that updated Macbooks may be in schedule for WWDC2018, which will take place on June 4.