Apple doesn't care to listen to it's consumers. I wouldn't bother with them doing ANYTHING practical.
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Apple Says 2018 MacBook Pro Throttling is a Bug, Fix Available Now in New macOS Update
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Apple doesn't care to listen to it's consumers. I wouldn't bother with them doing ANYTHING practical.
EXACTLY. I applaud the YouTube tech reviewers who call this stuff out, as opposed to the ones that simply praise everything. Issues like this SHOULD be front page news until addressed. This particular YouTube video obviously caught the attention of Apple and they apparently worked with him as part of their troubleshooting process.
Sorry but I hear this about every PC manufacturer about everything they make. They don't care about this and they don't care about that. All they do is throw parts together and push something out. That may be true in some instances and with some vendors. There are others where PC manufacturers do take into account these kinds of things. The fact they're not so much focused on thin at any cost doesn't mean they don't.
Lol, thinness is affecting the heat dissipation performance though on laptops. Meaning metal, or at least Aluminum, will need to be replaced in 2020 if the lithography doesn’t drop below 12nm.
This is the key!! Proper Quality control and testing to come up with their performance statements would’ve shown this before the product director to give his sign off.
This screams of Apple executives and higher up directors just showing up to count their dollars and days until their stock options mature!!
Somebody NEEDs to have their arse smacked to get back to work!
Maybe not thicker ... yet more vents that have freer flowing heat from bottom to top. The other option is to actually use other materials, magnesium is strong and heavily malleable so compressing it would give equal rigidly. Alternatively using other polymers or similar that may have some recyclable values.
"People were saying" were 99% people who don't even own these machines.
Agreed. On the flip side there are those who faulted everyone but Apple (or denied a problem even existed). I am puzzled why people are so quick to make excuses for Apple.
Those are the people you should be thanking for Apple resolving the issue so quickly
I agree. The last encode I did on the new machine was faster and a lot quieter compared to the top spec 2011( replaced hdd with ssd) I have. I guess it felt I did not real push it because the fans were quiet. Maybe next time for science I will monitor the cpu.
Yeah they look nice I have both 2011 and 2016. Look very nice and modern, I love the dark color its a testament to my professionalism.
but no mag safe, no target disk mode, no upgradable ssd, no dual ssd (swapped dvd drive), no diy ram upgrade, keyboard not serviceable, keyboard breaks from looking at it, annoying touchbar, aggressive down clocking for heat management....makes me look like a hipster in the end
Apple will just sell a cooling pad which, like dongles and other things, you'll have to carry around with you. That way they'll be able to claim their laptops are thin and lightweight
This maybe a bug but testing out software for 30mins like everyone with a Core i9 MBP has done would’ve seen this internally at Apple.
Makes me think their performance numbers are direct from Intel and Apple didn’t actually test software for performance metrics like they used to.
So in just two weeks Apple was able to come up with a fix for this problem? Why was this not tested internally and implemented from the start.
That's odd. When I've performed transcoding on my 2012 rMBP the fans noticeably speed up. But it maintains at least its base clock speed.
What will speak volumes is how far less posts we will see on this thread as compared to the original report about the issue to start with (now sitting at 1573 posts and 63 pages long). People love to hate, complain, and bash on Apple. But when they do something right in a very timely manner the masses are silent. Crickets. I am guessing too that the majority who do comment here will most likely still moan about something... Isn't there enough already wrong in the world? I commend Apple for publicly addressing this, and with rapid resolve!
Yes, also it parallelizes well usually, unless you end up being I/O-bound reading/writing the video files, which you won't on the fast new SSDs.
So it's OK for Apple to release a broken system as long as 99% of the people don't own one? What about the people who were considering one? Do they count?
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No, what people are doing is pointing out a legitimate issue with an Apple product. They should be faulted. Those who should be faulted are those who make excuses for Apple despite the obvious problem.
I don't care what kind of processor we're talking about - in the past, you never saw issues like this with MacBooks straight out of the gate. Issues came to light later (like the defective 8600 series GPUs) and were resolved, but at least at the outset we got machines that actually worked.
What's practical about carrying around a thicker, heavier machine that makes more noise just to have it perform slightly better (by being able to Turbo Boost longer)? Assuming the problem with the i9 isn't inadequate cooling.
Errrm it was a joke, look at my post and i’m sure you’ll see that i was being sarcastic.
I have a 32 thread (dual 8-core w/hyperthreading) Z620 and Handbrake cannot utilize them all. I ran the same transcode on the same system with 24 threads (dual 6-core w/hyperthreading) and it was able to utilize all threads. So it starts to fall off somewhere after 24 thread (both systems completed the job in the same time).