After reading all the reviews, I decided to stick it out with my 2017 13” MacBook Pro for my Lightroom photo editing. I’m going to let this throttling thing works itself out, and in four years when the keyboard repair program is up I’ll trade up then. The 2017 is plenty fast enough for photo editing.I think because of the throttling, people won't see a huge increase in batch processing, I saw one youtube where the 2018 model was no faster in batch processing then the 2017. I use LR, but I'm not terribly concerned about performance, so I've disabled Turbo Boost and my temps have gone from 80c to 60c and for me that's more important. LR has always run like a dog anyways
I'm sure, its hard to justify upgrading after one year anyways.
I totally agree. The only reason I was tempted was because I could finally get a 13” quad core MBP (my previous MBP was a 2012 15” w/quad core) but financially it doesn’t make sense to trade in a perfectly fine laptop I just got less than a year ago.
I think because of the throttling, people won't see a huge increase in batch processing, I saw one youtube where the 2018 model was no faster in batch processing then the 2017. I use LR, but I'm not terribly concerned about performance, so I've disabled Turbo Boost and my temps have gone from 80c to 60c and for me that's more important. LR has always run like a dog anyways
Its hard to say due to throttling. There are ways to avoid the heating problem such as using the app volta, there's a number of threads already on this It's your money, your decision, I opted to keep it, but we cannot tell you whether you should return it or not. I do believe Apple will fix the issue in firmware, but I have no idea when that will be.