I am sitting at 38c right now as I write this with my machine in a leather "BookBook" case in a room that is 81f. I call BS!
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Apple Says 2018 MacBook Pro Throttling is a Bug, Fix Available Now in New macOS Update
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Yeah 56c idle sucks.
My water cooled i7-2600K clocked to 4.2 GHz, all cores pegged, runs around 52c as long as you want it to.
Funny that you keep apologizing for a company caught delivering a buggy product. Acting high and mighty? What kind words.
Had certain clients not done the Q&A work for them, we would not have this discussion.
Oh, and fixing the thing quickly is kind of what you expect given the company image and strive for courage and perfection.
I am seeing the exact opposite behavior.
The presentation shows a MBP sitting on a video editing desk and hooked up to monitors, speakers, RAID storage, and editing controllers. The intent of that picture was to show that a MBP could do all the work that previously required a desktop computer. Since there is no longer a desktop computer at that desk, all functions previously done on the desktop would be done on the MBP. That includes overnight batch renders and everything else.
I am not going to speculate as to whether the editor depicted in that presentation has access to other computers not seen in the picture:
"Well, maybe he has a second desk with a 12 core Mac Pro where he does all the heavy work"
"Maybe he works in a large company that has a render farm where they send all their overnight rendering jobs"
Do you have a source that MBPs are underclocked? Looking at the 2015 high-end model, for example, it's full speed.
Well I said semi-custom PCs and servers. So yes, I've "built" (aka assembled the lego pieces they give you for) PCs, and I know the basics of cooling. One server was home-built and meant to run max CPU load for long periods of time, the others rack units where I was actually concerned about the cooling of the room they're in. You make it sound like it's difficult or something to cool a desktop PC, which it's not unless you're either using the prohibitive iMac case or doing such extreme overclocking that you're more concerned about other problems.
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Like I said, feel free to use the MBP for your overnight renders; I disagree with the OP. And if you want to infer “a MBP could do all the work that previously required a desktop computer” from the pic, go ahead.
But no one ever said it would equal the performance of a Mac Pro. Or maybe you’re also mind-reading that intent into that picture?
My current equipment is listed in my signature. I do not need to upgrade my hardware or switch at this time. If Apple's poor software quality control continues, then I very well may switch in 4 years time.
Lol, do you own any equities? There is always something to worry about, but no investor with a clue sells until the facts change in the data. Apple’s numbers have never been better. This stuff you are being such an alarmist about is the normal course of business.Just continue to ignore that video above and put your fingers in your ears like everyone who manages money
You can’t own stocks if you’re worried about this minor stuff.
OMG how? My 2016 model averages around 65ºC at idle, no case, even less ambient temps, around 24ºC
Edit: I had Chrome open
Closing it I get around 60c idle, with fans on auto. Fans on max, 50c is the lowest it goes
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I agree with you on bose and beats. Bose’s heyday was back in the 70’s with 901’s. Since they are overrated.
It’s funny, but in reality that wouldn’t fix the problem
I was seeing the issue with just 4 threads in use.
Holy smokes! I idle between 36-42c. You seriously idle that high!?!OMG how? My 2016 model averages around 65ºC at idle, no case, even less ambient temps, around 24ºC
Edit: I had Chrome open
Yeah. I may need to open it and blow the dust off huh? I've only had it for a year and 4 months.
Edit: turns out having the Ultrafine 5k connected has a massive impact. 43c idle with the external monitor disconnected, auto fans, laptop is finally silent
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Glad you figured it out
Good thing you aren’t a TechTuber—we might have had another thousand post thread filled with the usual hysterical complaints and pronouncements
Glad you figured it out
Good thing you aren’t a TechTuber—we might have had another thousand post thread filled with the usual hysterical complaints and pronouncements
Thanks. Another thing that I found makes a big difference is the mouse, I have a Logitech G903 gaming mouse with 1000Hz polling rate (sends the coordinates to the CPU 1000 times per second) - on my desktop PC it doesn't matter much but on the Macbook Pro it's about 10% utilisation and almost 10ºC more.
Bit of useless info but maybe it will help someone out.
All it was needed in order to realise the problem was a render in any of the Premiere, FCPX, C4D etc. Nothing exceptionally specific to some non-common procedure that was finally revealed due to wide public usage.
It's simply lack of a proper QC. But, then again, who is really surprised by that lately ?
We all make our choices and have opinions, but best company in the world? Do you have experience of EVERY other company in the world?
Yes. I would rather have a dead MBP than an empty bank account. The latter requiring less hacking skills.
So let's be honest. This isn't about hackers. This is about limiting me in what I can do with the hardware I buy.
I beg to differ, wildlife photography is done on CF -> XQD/Cfast. A SD card can't empty out the buffer fast enough and I have yet to see a wedding photographer use SD since there camera's are predominantly full frame and therefor don't have a SD slot. Still the argument is that the MBP is not a pro laptop because is missed a SD slot which is predominantly a consumer standard. If its missing a pro slot it would be XQD or CFast just now so you can get right to your footage from your 6k Blackmagic or your images from your 1Dx/D5