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Initial Reports Suggest macOS Catalina 10.15.2 May Fix 16-Inch MacBook Pro Popping Sound Bug for Some Users
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Why would they? You'll still buy it.
Wouldn’t it be great to have small speakers you could strap around or over your head? Small form factor, portable and studio sound quality..
I would call them headspeakers.. or something like that, you know?
Because if they tell customers it's fixed and it's not, then the scolding from the buying public will be immense and possibly even affect sales of the new 16" Pro in a negative way. Best to just issue the fix and hope for the best. I guarantee that's what the suits up in the ivory towers of Apple are saying.
Yes people test, they test repeatedly, not one of the people I work with, myself included can reproduce this issue and likely the same happened at Apples testing facilities. You can test until you're blue in the face and once your product hits the masses bugs you never came across will show up, it happens, it's been part of tech forever.
Yet every single bug comments like this pop up. It's exhausting.
yes, Apple wants us to buy next gen when it comes out.
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When user presses the pause button, the speakers are muted using other method so software covers up rather than software fix?
I see things I don't like going on with Apple, exploiting minority politics, pricing, some quality concerns, Siri, HomePod, $50,000 cheese grater. However, I was issued a new Dell at work and not a cheap one - holy hell it is a mess. Not Windows' problem either. I've never had it crash on my homemade box, on which I type.
Problem is that it's looking that way, disappointing beyond belief. Is what it is, priorities and all...
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Only took four years to acknowledge the Butterfly Keyboard was an issue. Thing with monopolies they are self-serving, always...
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A few years ago, I was writing an app that simulated hearing loss by adjusting frequencies. One thing I noticed is that all sounds, even quiet ones must be ramped when they start and end. Otherwise, it makes a pop.
I wonder if Apple is dealing with some variation of this. For example, maybe it's a power saving technique that turns on and off the speakers, and it doesn't ramp properly before turning them off and on. This would mesh with my experience because it took me a while to eliminate all the pops while still starting and stopping audio without making the ramp audible.
I've had similar experiences with Windows. When I run it on my boxes, it's been a pleasant experience. I still prefer Mac OS, but it's not dreadful. Premade machines are another story.
I've had a few good Dell laptops, HP laptops have always been crap for me. Towers have been problematic from both.
Unfortunately for me, this update completely bricked my brand new 16” MBP, requiring a TimeMachine restore.
I’m getting really fed-up with Apple’s lack of quality control. I’ve spent over $10,000 in the last 6 months on Apple tech and had numerous issues on virtually every piece of it. MBP gets bricked, Beats Pro buds fail to charge, iPad that constantly forces me to enter a password manually instead of using Face ID, a keyboard that constantly loses its Bluetooth connection (probably a problem with the MBPro, not the keyboard).
I’m normally the one that rarely has problems, and it’s probably my fault for buying 1st gen hardware, but this is getting ridiculous. Were it not for the fact that I’m so invested (both hardware and software) in Apple’s ecosystem, I would switch to Windows (where I inexplicably never had any issues).
Really frustrating!
I’m getting really fed-up with Apple’s lack of quality control. I’ve spent over $10,000 in the last 6 months on Apple tech and had numerous issues on virtually every piece of it. MBP gets bricked, Beats Pro buds fail to charge, iPad that constantly forces me to enter a password manually instead of using Face ID, a keyboard that constantly loses its Bluetooth connection (probably a problem with the MBPro, not the keyboard).
I’m normally the one that rarely has problems, and it’s probably my fault for buying 1st gen hardware, but this is getting ridiculous. Were it not for the fact that I’m so invested (both hardware and software) in Apple’s ecosystem, I would switch to Windows (where I inexplicably never had any issues).
Really frustrating!
I haven't noticed this with my HomePod. Is yours positioned near other electronics or by itself?
Dude it's a small audio bug that's been fixed. You act like the laptops are bursting into flames or something. A decade of testing wouldn't squash all software bugs.
The saddest part of this entire debacle and article is the "may have fixed" part. The fact that Apple isn't even letting their customers know whether or not they indeed implemented their "fix" is truly pathetic. I mean there's many people who are worried this is actually a hardware issue being masked by software. People deserve a clear answer, Apple.
the problem is that the popping and cracking that first appeared on iMac Pro T2, and later 2018 MacBook Pros also affected external interfaces, so its easy to assume the same original issues is still present on the newest T2 macs.
So far, I haven't seen any reports akin to 2018 fiasco, but you know, when i read it I twitched despite not having one
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it's not small AT ALL, because it completely disabled USB interfaces for a couple of months, and its been fixed a couple of times already on 13", 15", iMac Pros AND Mac Minis.
Don't try to down play it. This shouldn't happen on a 2019 16" release, they've had 3 gens of 15"ers to fix it.
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This literally made me lol.
If the speakers are making popping noises, it‘s an issue that needs to be fixed. How could there be any dispute about this, even on MacRumors?
Otherwise by that logic, if your display starts having issues, it’s not Apple’s fault, you just should be using an external monitor anyway! For those having problems with the butterfly keyboard, shouldn’t they be using an external keyboard anyway?
What the pop is when the audio process stopping. It happen to me only one time when I was leaving a YouTube video back to web browser. Just a glitch, will be fixed soon.
By itself and a flower vase and a document folder to be precise.
Very occasional but loud enough to notice.
It's not black or white. Some issues affect only a minority of users, especially because of a wide range of factors regarding how the computers are used. It's not sometimes difficult to replicate these conditions.
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Anyway the issue has not completely vanished from my MBP 2019 13". When using Firefox and listening to audio from multiple sources at the same time.
Besides all the bugs, all updated versions stall at the Catalina screen, i.e. you can't accept or reject Siri, etc. without shutting down the computer and rebooting. It's just another example of sloppiness under Timmy.