Apple may have been fiddling around with the MacBook Air's innards and trying out the A5 processor found in the iPad 2, if new reports are to be believed.
An anonymous source says that the company has ripped out the Intel iCore 2 Duo chips and replaced them with its own proprietary Apple A5 ARM-based processor, currently the beating heart of the iPad 2.
"According to this source who saw live A5 MacBook Air actually, this test machine performed better than expected," says Macotakara, the site which broke the story.
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It's not clear whether the Air was running iOS found on iPads, iPhones and iPod touches or the full-on Mac OS X Snow Leopard that the Air currently offers.
If Apple does release an Air running an A5 chip, it could mean headaches for application developers whose software would require significant modification in order to play nicely with the ARM architecture.
Moving from the Intel processors to the A5 chip could see the slim Mac notebooks enjoying longer battery life thanks to the low-powered processor.
But, as with all Apple rumours, we'll have to await an announcement before we know anything for sure; the latest rumblings peg the next MacBook Air reveal for June/July.
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