Late 2008 Macbook Pro HIDDEN PERFORMANCE DEFECT

[cg165]

I am sure there is a way to get everything to work properly in a thin and light notebook. and to be honest, is their responsibility to get things to work properly. I am not arguing with you whether the computer should run properly, as i buy my MBP is to USE, not just a piece of thing to show off to friends, and it seems there are a lot of people who buy it for this purpose it seems. I am looking for possible results, and solution. Not excuses

Angus

What are you doing that isn't working properly? I've never heard of someone running 2 different benchmarking tools at the same time lol... Your computer is running at the rated 2.8 ghz as advertised, and of course when it gets really hot (instead of melting and becoming useless) it will either shut down or downclock. I can't think of a computer that hasn't done this for a long time. Also I can't think of a program that uses both 100% CPU and GPU simultaneously (other than benchmarking programs ran at the same time lol). You seem to be reaching for a problem. You can write this same exact post about a dell, or any other machine.

If there's a program that uses 100% cpu and gpu besides benchmarking tools / folding I would love to know what it is and what you are unable to do on your MBP. I've encoded videos with no problems, ran tons of programs at the same time and didn't come close to using all of my system resources. It's not easy to get the fans to rev up even without running certain demanding programs.

 

[Ampidire]

This is ridiculous.

If all you're going to do is run GPU benchmarks and CPU benchmarks side by side and expect full performance from both chips, buy a desktop.

A laptop/notebook is meant for on-the-go usage, and long battery life, and the components are designed as such, and my logic is not flawed in my post earlier on the last page, yours is.

You are expecting a computer to damage itself and shut off and kill itself rather than protect itself (and your investment I might add).

If you actually want to use your computer for what it's meant for, go ahead, but this is ridiculous. There is no flaw with the computer or the design in this regard, ALL laptops do this, lots of DESKTOPS do this, my Q6600 does this to lower power consumption when I'm not using it's full power, it's smart enough to know when I need it all.

If you want a chip that'll fry itself, but a P3 or an early model P4 that don't have thermal protection.