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Apple Says 2018 MacBook Pro Throttling is a Bug, Fix Available Now in New macOS Update
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This guy did some preliminary testing after the fix and it's not really good news folks:
Nah, I think the 2003 PowerBook is more hipster. Are you running BSD on it?
That's true,
Um, what you should have said after posting this video is, "Are you not entertained?! Is that not why you are here?!"
Can we add video export to the test suite, guys? A few user stories about 100% CPU for a few minutes, ok? Thanks.
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They're also not very fast, lol. Which would explain why they don't reach high speeds when they're effectively underclocked. Apple has a history of this, check the 4790k iMac... that thing had to downthrottle too.. A DESKTOP.
That still doesn't mean you've got experience with PC builds and cooling, something you CAN'T tinker with on Apple comps because Apple prefers to cram everything into as small footprint as possible... you should know this.
Will there be a supplemental update for people on Mojave with the new MBP 2018? Or was this bug already fixed in beta 4 or a previous beta? Can find that answer anywhere yet.
Um, the 'armchair engineers' showed that it wasn't good enough. If it wasn't for them and the widespread attention they garnered would a fix have come so quickly? So I don't think you should be so hard on them.
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Microsoft does make good stuff, but I consider dollars spent more relevant than market share or units sold. That's why Samsung still wishes they were Apple or all the other trash that use Android.
Apple crushes Microsoft in dollar spent period, but particularly in the consumer products area.
Enterprises are basically forced into Windows because of their compatibility...which is a good thing and a strength. But there are downsides.
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Totally exaggerating.The MBP is fully capable of working properly, as demonstrated by Apple with this fix. Apart from that, in the year 2018, you really want everything locked down. Or would you prefer it if some hacker can turn off the fans on your MacBook and the throttling, and it dies from overheating?
Your profile pic made me think (and also made me hungry)... Maybe the MBPs should be like burgers where you can order single, double or triple thickness.
The armchair engineers were the ones speculating on what was wrong, how it could or could not be fixed, what Apple engineers knew or didn't, etc. There were people speculating there was no way this could be fixed via software, the product was DOA, the design was flawed, too thin, not sufficient, etc etc. All nonsense.
This takes nothing away from finding an issue. I'm simply telling you not every scenario can be tested and/or replicated and you're insane if you think Apple didn't do their own version of testing. Should it have been better? Who knows, but it's fixed and now we can move on.
You must not be a shareholder.
When the numbers are impacted by normal business operations like this, I'll know. I know the numbers backward and forward....and they are almost all outstanding to freaking incredible. From a financial perspective, there isn't a company that touches Apple.
And class action?? LOL!!! The biggest class action settlement ever in history for any company would be a peanuts to Apple and only the health related ones are even close to damaging. The tobacco one could have been paid with a month's profit from Apple...so no, not worried about silly class actions.
Apple's financials are world class and it isn't close.
You're like the person that says Disney is doomed because a ride broke down for 2 hours or that the park WiFi went down for a day. ALL business has issues. It's all about how you respond to them. Apple makes new products on a yearly basis and it's insane to think all of this will work without some hiccups.
Sell your shares to me. I'll buy them.
It's not currently patched on Mojave. You'll have to wait for the next beta, if it's included then.
Don't run a beta and expect top performance anyways. They're always far from optimized.
Nikon D500 (Pro level APSC uses XQD and SD), D850 (XQD and SD), D750 (SD). And then there's the other brands that some Pros use (Olympus, Sony, Pentax, etc) that use SD.
If anything, CF is getting harder to find and more expensive.
My laptop randomly restarted one time which is still T2 issue and Max cpu clock with cinebench didnt go above 3.5 then dropped to 3.1 3.0 with temp @100 C
link to my T2 issue on Brand new MacBook pro 2.9 15 inch 32 gb 2TB
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...inch-and-issue-already.2129250/#post-26283180
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Im not on Beta, I run this tests on 10.13.6
Agreed.
I’m wondering if Apple has moved all of their senior QA staff to another project in the last year or so.
It hasn’t been just this - we’ve seen software only bugs such as the high sierra root bug of this year. Plus the slow motion car crash that was iOS 11 for about the first six months on anything other than 2017’s new iPhone models.
It was often said of Apple that they couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time & I’m wondering if this is still the case.
It often feels that they can only focus on a few things at once before things start to slip.
So basically this software patch does some vrm tweaks and adds an aggressive fan profile. These machines still run too hot, the vrms will give out, as well as the cpu and gpu. I can't wait for the apologists when this is remembered as the second 2011 Macs
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I'm going to bet that if I read your posts you've also said in the past that the butterfly switches weren't a problem and people were making them up (Something that will cost Apple millions).
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if the clock speed is running above the rated base clock speed (2.9GHz) using a benchmark test such as Cinebench (all cores 100%)...
then that’s good.
srry but you should definitely be satisfied with the 6cores running at a consistent 3.1 GHz during a Cinebench test.
(in my opinion at least).
From experience (running an older MBP 15" with all cores running, using the wrong charger (65W instead of 85W) that couldn't supply enough power: There are no system crashes. The battery emptied very, very slowly, at 2% charge the clock speed went down to maybe one half of the normal speed, the battery charged up to 5%, clock speed went back to full speed, battery went to two percent and so on. (Turning WiFi off and brightness down and it went back to 100% over many, many hours - but as I said, with the wrong charger).