I had purchased the June 15" MacBook Pro in Aug 2019. It's fans would always run at full speed and it had a lot of overheating and throttling problems throughout its life to the point of being unusably slow sometimes, when it was connected to my 2 external monitors via HDMI (never faced this on 13" which I had right before). One of the reason I think this happens is that when you connect to external monitors, the 15" and 16" models switch over to the dGPU and the measly 2-fan cooling system is not good enough to cool a powerful CPU + dGPU all at once. Anyway, it climaxed with the battery exploding and going into flames around 2 months ago. Luckily, all I suffered was a small burn on my finger. I spoke to Apple and they are in the process of giving me a full refund for it.
I want to purchase the new 16" one but I am afraid it might have the same overheating and throttling problems because in essence the design is the same as the 15" one. My workflow involves always being connected to 2 external monitors 24x7, so I have to take that into consideration.
Would love to know from other 16" MBP users if they face overheating problems when connected to external monitors for extended periods of time. If yes, I'll probably go for the 13" this time since it does not have a dGPU and will likely not end up blowing up in my face like the previous one did.
Cheers and thanks for the replies!
I want to purchase the new 16" one but I am afraid it might have the same overheating and throttling problems because in essence the design is the same as the 15" one. My workflow involves always being connected to 2 external monitors 24x7, so I have to take that into consideration.
Would love to know from other 16" MBP users if they face overheating problems when connected to external monitors for extended periods of time. If yes, I'll probably go for the 13" this time since it does not have a dGPU and will likely not end up blowing up in my face like the previous one did.
Cheers and thanks for the replies!
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