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cap7ainclu7ch

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So I've experienced 3 crashes so far while my 16" has been closed and sleeping. Upon opening it I find the computer booting up. I've seen multiple reports of others experiencing the same issues.

Additionally my Touch Bar locks up rather consistently.

I'm loving the computer so far, but I'm rather nervous about such large issues impacting it in the future seeing as I've only owned it for a little over a week. My 2015 never really had any severe issues, but it's just a rather anemic computer in 2019 (intel integrated graphics only). Not really sure what to do, but I don't want to own a 3k computer that randomly crashes.
 
The clamshell issues are likely related to software, and I suspect we will see a patch before too long. I spoke to an Apple engineer and they are aware of the issue.
 
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I just had my first one of these today. Machine wouldn’t wake up via my external keyboard, so I opened it up and found it was booting up. Very unnerving to be honest.
 
Sounds like Bridge OS error, check your logs in inspector.

Termination Reason: WATCHDOG, [0x1] monitoring timed out for service
Termination Details: WATCHDOG, checkin with service: com.apple.WindowServer returned not alive with context:
unresponsive work processor(s): WindowServer main thread
40 seconds since last successful checkin, 2 total successsful checkins since wake (0 induced crashes)


That seems to be one of the reports for a crash. Not sure if it's that helpful or not.

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My computer also just started blasting the fans and the keyboard became unresponsive. The trackpad worked fine, but no key input was being accepted other than the esc key. I love this computer but I might have to return it and wait these issues out.
 
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