It's a 2.6 GHz and came with Mojave 10.14.1 and purchased from Adorama during Black Friday. Many complaints about Adorama customer service, the only complaint I have is that they don't allow returns once the box is opened I didn't know of it until after the purchase.
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December / MacOS 10.14.2 2018 Macbook Pro "Bridge OS" Kernel Panic Poll
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I had 1 crash 2 days after purchasing base model 13" MBP. I didn't see OS Bridge or other indications of Kernel Panic but could've missed it. Called Apple - reinstalled OS - have been beating it up the last week trying to recreate the issue but everything seems ok. I have, however, noticed that the computer gets warm (not hot) more than I recall from laptops I've worked on in the past. Not all the time, just occasionally. Not sure if I'm being overly sensitive or if its a problem I should be worrying about. I've got a few more weeks to check it out within the return period. Otherwise, I'm very happy w/ my purchase.
I still think that many people with T2 problems don't realize it.
It should probably be asked how many people found their MacBook Pro restarted in the morning after putting it to sleep that night.
Do you think people reading this forum are part of that pool, though? If they are reading these threads my bet is they are much savvier than the avg bear and would know something was up if they kept seeing it restart.
Re Adorama i emailed them today to find out that exact piece of information so funny you should answer it so perfectly here.
It's a risk.
I recently bought a 2017 MacBook Pro from B&H knowing that Apple has repairs designed for whatever goes wrong and that the warranty would cover it.
On the other hand, I would never consider buying a 2018 MacBook Pro from any place without a return policy. With the T2 issue, a return / replacement is the only sure bet to cure all the T2 issues. Apple software and firmware changes seemed to have greatly reduced T2 errors but, I would never get a T2 equipped Mac unless it had the 14 day return policy.
Best Buy had some killer deals this year and has an exceptional policy for returns around the holidays.
At this point maybe I should just report back to the thread when my MacBook Pro DOESN'T crash. I hadn't used it at all this weekend. Put it to sleep on Friday attached to my screens, and what do you know. . . This morning it had restarted all on its own. Thank you so much Apple for ignoring the problems with this T2 chip.
Document everything and keep bothering Apple and eventually they should give you a replacement.
What do you mean where? I am seeing this on my imac pro and some folks in an Apple forums thread on slow boots while connected to ext drives, regarding slow startup anyway. In my case I have most T2 chip functions shut off, so I don't see as many OS bridge panics in any case. But that slow boot thing was driving me nuts till this latest beta seems to have helped.
Thats what i meant.
I think the thing people are saying about "having t2 features turned off" is a total misnomer. Thats like holding your breath and saying you've turned off your autonomic nervous system.
Well it is certainly not a fix, but I turned off secure boot in the recovery menu, siri, sleep, mostly because I don't need them on my imac pro, but that certainly isn't a fix. But it is a better fix than the guy on the Apple Support Forums who on his imac pro support case was told to buy an external video card to fix his problems (quoted below). ha.. well at least mine only told me to wipe and start over.
iMac Pro 8 core Radeon Pro Vega 64. I have the same problem. I had contact with the support all year. The diagnostic tool ran several times on my system. Several clean installations of 10.13 and now Mojave didn't help. Support advised me to buy an external graphics card. I am incredibly disappointed.
Very rarely now. maybe once a week at most. I do get frequent hangs on shut down (power off only by holding button down) which I can't seem to diagnose. These sort of booting issues should be a thing of the past. The whole booting thing is archaic. Reminds me of windows 98. Maybe my kids, kids, kids will finally get instant on computing. (well I guess I could just leave it on 24/7)
For the shutdown issue...
Did you say that you have unplugged the drives and tried it without them and it's better? What if you simply unmount them but leave them plugged in? Tried other drives instead? Firmware update for the drives? If there is a delay, its possible also that some background process is using something on a drive and the amount of time is the timeout duration for Mac OS to give a **** about what a background process is doing.
You could try safe booting, and then shutting down and seeing if that tells you anything about how it works.
So there I was. Reading a book on my iPad in bed.... I hadn’t used the machine in 3 hours. It was asleep. Until it decided to randomly restart. Didn’t get a pic of the Apple logo screen, but rest assured. It was there first.
Problem is it isn't regular enough to troubleshoot like that. As soon as it does it once the next boot and shutdown is normal. The system console log, while full of some interesting things, doesn't seem to see the hang. I'm sure if I did a clean install and unplugged all my TB3 things it would go away, but that would take me way too long to patch back up my hundreds of audio plugins and such to the point where I just put up with it. One day maybe...
It does make me mad that we can't let our macs "sleep" or connect anything to the external ports without risking problems. How is this progress? yeah I guess 99 percent of everyone else has no issues at all, right? Wonderful!
Same thing here. As long as I don’t plug in my displays, the machine is solid. It would be a lot easier to switch to Windows if it played nicely with Python, and had a built in terminal. Of course, I could always dual boot windows / Unix.