I have this. Late-2013 15-inch.
I think it’s due to the battery, though. It’s way above its designed cycles and can no longer hold the right voltage.
I thought (hoped) my abrupt shutdowns in my 15" Mid-2014 MacBook Pro i7 were due to battery too. In 2018 I got a
Temark battery off Amazon and my friend changed the battery for me. However, 1+ year later it started doing abrupt shutdowns once you started doing a bunch of tabs - even when on the charger. I did a thread on this
here. I read through several threads and recall seeing at least one person mention they had this problem but fixing the battery solved it. So just a few weeks ago I had Experimax replace the battery (Apple wouldn't do it since I put a 3rd party one in) and that didn't resolve the problem. They did look at everything else (thermal paste, fans, dust, etc) and said all that was fine which leaves the logic board. I had the option to fix or replace, but with costs being $400-500, it just wasn't worth it imo.
So while my downside is I'm out $185 for the new battery. Plus side is I can at get $480 credit from it from Apple now at least (they prob wouldn't have taken it in its orig form with the 3rd party battery in there). I've already bought the computer from ebay since Apple wasn't getting the 2.3gz i9 model in the refurb store for the past several days so I'll be able to use the credit towards applecare+ at least and then be sitting on $100+ apple money to do something with.
IMO, if you still have original battery in there, just trade it in to apple, don't bother to fix it. Since you know it's crashing, it would be cruddy to sell to someone. At least with Apple you know they can test and fix the issue on their end and then do whatever with it. Makes me feel better about not wasting an otherwise good functioning product.
If I didn't already have a 13" 2015 i5 MBP I keep as my "go" computer (Which is still working fine, but does need a new battery, and seems to have stopped reading the SD card slot), I'd keep my mid-2014 one as a back up. But no need for that due to the 2015 one, plus lower portability in the 15".
FWIW I've got a 2018 MBP 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 (moved over from windows a month ago) with 16gb. I've currently got Outlook running, Powerpoint, 12 tabs in MS Edge, MS Remote Desktop running and have just done a few Skype and team calls using webcam. Memory pressure is green. CPU is pretty much idle.
I just fired up Final Cut Pro X and played back a 2min video I'm editing and CPU still 70% idle and memory pressure green. 32gb is way overkill for your use case, save your money!
Nice, good info and seems to be a common thread. Maybe I should use my $100+ apple money towards FCP and you and me can make some short films. I write scripts!
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How often do you upgrade your machine, I keep mine for approx a year unless I am travelling and can't order new machine. So I don't buy into the get everything upgraded; if you need it for work and require it than go for it.Otherwise I would not bother personally.
I web browse have 16 tabs open, using VMWare with 8gb ram have office open and playing music and do light photoshopping cough cough attempts and my 12" managed that fine still a bit slow but nothing major. My 16" wipes the floor and I got it as I missed my old 17" Macbook.
I like to do a 2.9 year cycle so I can sell my machine right when the applecare is about to end. That way whoever's buying can buy with confidence knowing that if anything's off with the machine, Apple will back them up. Been following this pattern since my first mac purchase, the powerbook G4 in 2002.
My mid-2014 one was the longest I used a single machine as my primary because mid-way through ownership I returned the applecare when they woudln't fix a broken screen (officially, I know they're not supposed to, but in practice usually they've been cool about it over the years). So with no reason to sell at the 2.9 year mark, I just kept it as long as it could. Would have kept going with it if it wasn't for this crashing thing.
But I agree it's the fact that I'm not going to have this one long term that the cost isn't worth it to go to 32gb otherwise if a) it was cheaper or b) I knew I'd be keeping it a long time, I'd have gone with it.