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Apple Investigating 16-Inch MacBook Pro Popping Sound Issue, Fix Planned in Future Software Updates
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So you’re saying there's people who are happy about the popping MacBook?
You sound ridiculous at this point. You keep asking how many are impacted in various threads knowing damn well nobody can answer that question. This is an issue showing up and MR posted about it. Nothing wrong with that at all. I would imagine this IS an issue and of interest for people that use their MBP for A/V work. This is stuff that matters to them, not AAPL stock prices, the valuation of Apple or how many they sold.
To MacRumors, from a potential purchaser of this machine, thanks for posting and keep the articles coming.
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Brilliantly put! Thank you!! Sick of seeing people like this littering these forums. Makes one begin to wonder if Apple has plants. I'd hate to think they would ever stoop that low. I am sure it's nothing more than obsessed fanatics who sniff Apple product boxes. LOL
It's not. It affects ALL machines. It is just that some people do not use theirs in a way that would immediately reveal the problem.
Are they saying everyone is hearing this because, I have not experienced it on any of our 16 inch systems.
Of course, like me.
You are just ignorant people. The popping sound is the patented SCALN-Function; Self-Cleaning-After-Last-Note. This guarantees a permanently high quality of consistent tune reproduction.
Visit the following discussion and follow any of the many video examples demonstrating it. Your machines do it! https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ing-popping-sound-of-new-16-inch-mbp.2211902/
Honestly, I haven't had time to do a lot of audio related stuff on my new MBP 16 yet - but I intend to, and this is the kind of problem I'd find VERY annoying.
This has happened a number of times on the Windows platform over the years, with certain audio chipsets and driver revisions. So yeah, it's "not a big deal" in the sense it's just a driver thing and totally fixable via software update. But IMO, it's less tolerable on a Mac like this than on a typical Windows machine for two reasons:
1. You're paying a premium price because this new Macbook is designated a "Pro" machine by Apple, suited for the most demanding media creation type tasks.
2. Apple controls all the drivers centrally, as part of OS X releases. You don't generally get options to do things like "just use the audio driver designed for chipset 8432 instead of the 8452 in your machine as a work-around"... If Apple decides it doesn't care enough to fix the issue, all of the computers are forever cursed with the problem.
This has happened a number of times on the Windows platform over the years, with certain audio chipsets and driver revisions. So yeah, it's "not a big deal" in the sense it's just a driver thing and totally fixable via software update. But IMO, it's less tolerable on a Mac like this than on a typical Windows machine for two reasons:
1. You're paying a premium price because this new Macbook is designated a "Pro" machine by Apple, suited for the most demanding media creation type tasks.
2. Apple controls all the drivers centrally, as part of OS X releases. You don't generally get options to do things like "just use the audio driver designed for chipset 8432 instead of the 8452 in your machine as a work-around"... If Apple decides it doesn't care enough to fix the issue, all of the computers are forever cursed with the problem.
Most likely a rare occurrence. Else they would have caught it.
Not rare at all. Occurs on all new machines and even some older 15". It is just that the use case scenario is different for people and thus some haven't discovered it yet.
Are you so bitter about the fact that we finally got a non faulty keyboard in laptops that you’re now pre-emptively trolling anyone who dare take issue with this speaker problem?
P.S. It wasnt a ‘massive’ performance boost. Not sure where you got that.
You took it back...because of this???
Why not? It is a very serious problem for those of us who are pro A/V people.
Which pro audio people are using built in speakers to work on? You can't hear **** on them anyway, even if there was no audio feedback, use your monitoring solution!!
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LOL. I am not even going to dignify that with a response. If you don't know the answer, you don't work in the field. Not only that, but using studio monitors doesn't exempt Apple from fixing bugs. Workarounds are not solutions.
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Ah, I was waiting for the issues to start surfacing... the 16" sounded too good to be true. Hopefully this is an easy fix, and hopefully there aren't any more issues, but I aren't rushing out to buy a 16 quite yet.
Actually, the audio problem not the big issue for me (I definitely have heard it, especially using Motion today). What is annoying for me is the burnt in look of the laptop screen when I sometimes start it up. It looks super heavily saturated and gets stuck on that until I mess with the settings. This image doesn't quite do it justice.
Quite clearly it's you that hasn't, i've been part of grammy nominated projects - anyone saying built in speakers on a laptop are a serious problem for audio work is either trolling or talking nonsense.
There is no cult of Apple apologists. We all hold Apple to the highest standards.
I have popping noises on my 16" MBP when the sound gets cut off or a video is paused. I figured its a software thing and that they'd fix it eventually. Didn't think much of it TBH. Doesn't make it rare though.
Why are you asking MR? How would they know? Apple is the only party that might know it. Ask them but don't expect the straight answer. They will probably change the design in a few years to fix the issue.
Hahahaha riiiiiiiiight! Anyone "dropping their resume unsolicited", talking about working on "grammy nominated projects" has bigger issues. LMAO