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dengue

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Jul 26, 2018
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Hi there
I would like to know, who ordered macbook pro 2018 mid model in 2019, can you tell, do you experience any problems with bridge os, speakers crackling, random heating, freezes and other founded issues
I’ve bought my macbook pro 15” 2,6/32ram/560x in july 2018, and it was almost perfect, except top case which was crackling when open it.
After that i got replacement by apple, and new one was getting hot and run fans just randomly, battery dropped to 6900mah from originally 7400 mah just in few months.
So I wondering how the newly ordered macbooks working? Or maybe just wait for 16” redesign macbook
 
I have the model you are talking about. I got it in May of 2019. Just a few days later the 2019 was introduced. As far as those issues are concerned....I have experienced none of them. I am also running the latest beta of Catalina so I am not sure if that makes a difference. My machine is identified as (Mid-2018 15" (Touch Bar) - MR942LL/A* MacBook Pro A1990-3215)

Keyboard is solid. Good video signal with the built in graphics or switched to the Radeon. External monitors make no difference in video performance. Never had a bridge os error on Mojave or Catalina. No random heating except the first reboot of Catalina when it must have baselined itself. The speakers are top notch.

The Bridge OS kernel panic error is complex but has been attributable to the memory space needed for the OS to co-exist and run with the t2 chipset microcode. Basically if the memory space allocated is not large enough the kernel panic occurs. Is this a fundamental flaw in the chipset microcode or a smaller symptom indicative of an overall flawed product design that allows heat to damage the ASIC that houses the t2 microcode? The world may never know.

Try turning off power nap. or use a memory cleaner to free up large blocks of memory. I use an app called StatusBar and it has a clean memory button. Anytime I get a safari message about memory I fire up the app a and run clean memory process.

Sorry for getting long winded.

The answer is I have not had those issues.
 
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