Apple expected to reveal three new laptops with in-house chips for the first time, as the company parts ways with Intel

Now the big question: we know what’s going to be inside the new computers. But what are the new computers going to be?

Craig Federighi next, the dad-joke-spouting head of Apple’s software teams. He’s here to introduce macOS Big Sur, the latest version of the operating system, and talk up how well it works with the M1 chip.

A lot of this has been already announced, but he says Safari will be up to 1.9x faster, the Mac will be able to better manage battery life, and it will do fancy stuff with the new RAM to stop having to copy data across different parts of the computer.

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