It's very unlikely that they pass on savings to people by coming up with a cheap ARM laptop, after all their whole thing is gouging people with unrealistic pric

It's very unlikely that they pass on savings to people by coming up with a cheap ARM laptop, after all their whole thing is gouging people with unrealistic prices for the hardware and huge margins on everything. That said, if a laptop rolls around that doubles the 10 hour battery life on existing configurations - they'll scoop up a ton of users regardless whether it can run Windows or not. I don't know how doable that would be, but the iPad Pro has a 28 watt hour battery, the MBP 13 has a 59 watt hour battery, a theoretical Macbook without a discrete GPU and a smaller motherboard footprint of an A13 chip, leaving space for a bigger battery and providing about the same performance could possibly hit 20 hours of battery in about the same space.