Are there any MacBook Pros or regular Macbooks that don't have overheating problems?

[Falhófnir]

Since I do not know what that means, I too am curious. I have to look it up. I really just want it for programming. I'll use MS Visual Studio Code more than likely and the command line. I could buy an old laptop an put Linux, but I like the MBP's feel and the OS.

It's just shorthand for dedicated graphics card or integrated graphics card - in the case of the 2014, there's a model with only Intel Iris Pro graphics, and one with that plus a dedicated Nvidia Geforce 750M. The 2015 is the same, but the optional dedicated GPU is an AMD M370x. For the use case you give, I don't think you will get any benefit from a dedicated GPU so probably best to stick to the Iris Pro models 🙂

 

[jerryk]

Since I do not know what that means, I too am curious. I have to look it up. I really just want it for programming. I'll use MS Visual Studio Code more than likely and the command line. I could buy an old laptop an put Linux, but I like the MBP's feel and the OS.

I use my 2015 MBP with VS code almost every day. Mostly writing Python for Machine Learning. It works OK. The lack of a Nvidia GPU means it is kind of slow for this work, but OK.

 

[chrono1081]

I have MacBook Pros from 2007 and 2009 (late). Since I cannot, without a hack, install anything about 10.11, I need to get a new MBP or MB. These Macs I have get hot. I understand the heat is diffused by the body itself, but what I hoping to get help with is to find out if other year, 2012 to the present, have any heat problems. I always see one or two reviews that say this, but I have no idea. All laptops I've ever had heat up anyway, regardless of manufacturer.

Thanks.

Not interested the Air. I say 2012+ because they are good priced, and I can only guess they can do High Sierra, but I don't know how long.

Pretty much every post where someone claims to have heat problems are from people who don't know what heat problems actually are. People think a computer getting hot means it's overheating which isn't true. Computers warm up under heavy loads and this includes things like watching videos or even surfing flash heavy web pages.

None of the computers you mentioned have heat issues. Real heat issues will show themselves as stuttering on the screen and eventually the computer shutting down to save itself.

 

[hamiltonDSi]

@OP
Saw that you are interested in the 2013/2014 models. Good choice.

As a owner of two 15" Late 2013's :

1. 2.0 Quad i7 / 8GB DDR3 / 256GB / Intel Iris Pro
2. 2.3 Quad i7 / 16GB DDR3 / 1TB / Intel Iris Pro + NVidia GT 750M 2GB

I will recommend going for the 'upper-class' model, as the base one starts to show it's age.
Especially with only 8GBs of ram and a chipset.
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However, do keep in mind that the higher tier runs more hot....
....and sounds like a Boeing 747.

 

[FuryRoad]

I use my 2015 MBP with VS code almost every day. Mostly writing Python for Machine Learning. It works OK. The lack of a Nvidia GPU means it is kind of slow for this work, but OK.

Mine will be regular ol' web dev, mostly with the dotnet runtime, though I do use Django sometimes. You don't think I need the special GPU for that do you?