OP of the original post here
Regarding Dave Lee's second video ... I will admit that I am a bit disappointed in the comment of "Apple said that the reddit post was wrong". Anyone who was paying attention pre-patch could plainly see what was happening, and anyone who looks now can compare the Cinebench scores which I stated in the original post to the Cinebench scores people are getting with Apple's release. Anyone can also take my Intel Power Gadget graphs which are timestamped on imgur, and compare it to what you see on your own machines, and see that the graphs look remarkably similar. Obviously, I was, at least, very close to right.
To me, it felt like Dave's comment there came off like "I was the one person outside of Apple who was involved in this viral issue, and was the sole hero in helping Apple figure out what went wrong". I think Dave did have a key role in this story, bringing it to mass attention. He was also less right than I was in his first video -- he basically said this was CPU thermal throttling, and the system could only meet the stated performance goals if the machine was in a freezer. Obviously, from what *everyone* knows today, that is not true. Anyone who thinks that Apple could only debug this because Dave Lee told him what camera settings he used, is a fool.
I sort of half-wish that I made the announcement using a Youtube video, rather than a reddit post, but, here we are.
The one thing which I was probably wrong about that I probably should have figured out before I posted, is that this issue was actually happening elsewhere in the power delivery system, not the VRM. It would have been more accurate to call it "Power Throttling" -- and the main point really was that it was clearly not a CPU Thermal throttling issue. I'm sure at this point that people are going to be saying "VRM Throttling" for years now about this 2018 MBP -- so I can just cringe every time I read it
As far as the rest of the tone -- I think most people are here ultimately because they are to some extent an apple fanboy. Myself included. Was I disappointed in Apple at the time that I posted the original work -- of course. Has my viewpoint evolved today? Yes.
Definitely and that has me a bit worried, which is why I'm using the Volta app. I have it set to 30 watts, and right now on battery (I'm traveling today), I'm seeing 35c for temps. I'm more pleased with that, as my tasks today are needing to remotely access my work station so CPU cycles is not really needed
In my opinion, there's no need to worry about longevity with Apple's patch in place -- Certainly no more than you might have with a 2017 or 2016 MBP, and I haven't heard of any problems with people blowing up power components of those systems.
If you want to use Volta just to keep the system cooler while it's on your lap, or get slightly better battery life while traveling, that's a valid use case -- but I honestly would feel bad if you felt that you had to neuter the full potential of your system all the time because of what I posted. In fact, that was contrary to the point of what I posted, and why the settings I suggested allowed for full turbo for 8 seconds.
I am personally very much enjoying how my system can turbo up and for burst workloads is much faster than my 2013 Mac Pro with a 6-core Xeon.
