{"id":48814,"date":"2025-08-07T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48814"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:35:53","slug":"apple-still-investigating-cellular-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/apple-still-investigating-cellular-macbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Still Investigating Cellular MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/06\/apple-cellular-macbook-microsoft-5g-surface\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/06\/apple-cellular-macbook-microsoft-5g-surface\/\"><p>Recent reports have suggested Apple is actively considering bringing cellular connectivity to the Mac lineup as early as next year, but arch rival Microsoft isn&rsquo;t waiting around to find out &#x2013; the company is launching its first 5G-enabled Surface laptop this month.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The Surface Laptop&rsquo;s 5G capabilities come as Apple has begun deploying its custom-built C1 modem chip in some devices.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/12\/06\/apple-cellular-mac-custom-modem\/\">December<\/a> report by <em>Bloomberg<\/em>&rsquo;s Mark Gurman, Apple is &ldquo;investigating&rdquo; the possibility of adding a second-generation C2 modem to a future Mac as early as 2026. According to Gurman, Apple&rsquo;s next-generation C2 modem will support faster mmWave technology and is expected to arrive in 2026, debuting in Apple&rsquo;s iPhone 18 Pro models &#x2013; with inclusion in a Mac potentially shortly after.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>When Apple Silicon was announced five years ago, I was excited that it could lead to a much smaller notebook, a less expensive notebook, or one with a cellular modem. So far, it&rsquo;s made the existing MacBook lineup much better, but we haven&rsquo;t seen any of these potential new products.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/apples-spin-on-ai-and-ipados-multitasking\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Spin on AI and iPadOS Multitasking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/iphone-16e\/\">iPhone 16e<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/22\/rumor-of-cellular-macbook\/\">Rumor of Cellular MacBook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/10\/apple-silicon-the-roads-not-taken\/\">Apple Silicon: The Roads Not Taken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/why-dont-we-have-cellular-macbooks\/\">Why Don&rsquo;t We Have Cellular MacBooks?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: Recent reports have suggested Apple is actively considering bringing cellular connectivity to the Mac lineup as early as next year, but arch rival Microsoft isn&rsquo;t waiting around to find out &#x2013; the company is launching its first 5G-enabled Surface laptop this month.[&#8230;]The Surface Laptop&rsquo;s 5G capabilities come as Apple has begun deploying its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-08-07T21:58:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"eb1d8dc9-9285-4000-95f6-4643c354d1f0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-07T22:35:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A6x2NyZKFQACV9kZDw1TR8A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[397,2728,1941,986,452,30,1155,785,2473],"class_list":["post-48814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antenna","tag-apple-c1","tag-arm-macs","tag-cellular-data","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-macbook","tag-microsoft-surface","tag-rumor"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48820,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48814\/revisions\/48820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}