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No Kernel Panic on MacBook Pro 13" 2020?
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No panics. I had the 16” and experienced the kernel panics after I moved from 10.15.3 to 10.15.4. My 2020 10th gen 13” came with 10.15.4 installed, so I’ve been letting the laptop sleep at night, closing the lid while on power and coming back after a time. Happy to report no restarts and panic error messages waiting for me. Also owned mine for two weeks as of yesterday.
Are you using both now or have returned the 16"? I have actually decided to get the 16" but with all the issues reported here, I don't wish to pay so much money just to live with those issues.
I ordered and returned the 16" 3 weeks before the 2020 13" was announced. I have a heavy 15" Windows laptop that serves as a desktop machine for me currently. My greater need (at least at the time) was a personal portable machine. I wasn't keen on the butterfly keyboard so when I spotted a great refurb deal on a 16", I decided to try it out. While not heavy by any means, the form factor didn't suit. The issues that crept up didn't add favorable marks either.
You can always try it out and return it if you find you are running into the same reported problems. There are people who don't have any issues, so you won't know until you at least get on to work with.
Will I be able to know if my unit going to have kernel panic within the first 2 weeks?
You won’t know. I had kernel panic on my 2019 MacBook Pro 13” for the first time, a couple of days ago.
To my knowledge the issue with Kps with the 16" MBP is due to the dGPU, and since the 13" doesn't have a discrete GPU its a non-issue
I believe we are talking about more than one type of KP. Apart from the AMD dGPU related KP where I agree with you, we also seem to have other KP related to waking equipment connected via the TB interface, these KP are the ones I have experienced on both my 15 an 16”, they seem to be purely SW related.
The discussion in this forum sometimes become a bit confused as people refers only to KP or bridgeOS. I think it would help if more people provided logs.
To be sure, the touchbar had caused many Kernel Panics, however its my understanding that that issue has largely been resolved by apple. The only Kps I've seen being reported, is related to the GPU
That great, but sadly, many others are
My experience with a MacBook Pro 13" (2020 Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) - i7 2.3 GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB
I am on 10.15.5. The device came with 10.15.4, which I upgraded immediately after setting up the device. I also synced my iCloud during the setup process.
Arrived 2 days ago, at the time of writing it's literally 50h in my hands, has crashed 11 times, of which 10 have given me a kernel panic related error, and one just restarted unexpectedly without giving me the error notice after booting and without using the fans at full speed to cool down as all other times.
Called yesterday Apple support, they walked me through the SMC followed by the NVRAM resets.
The next steps they suggested if this kept happening is to do boot in recovery mode and even try with a new user on the system. They did leave open the room for repair or replacement.
I personally suspect something going on with Adobe CC or a version of Paragon NTFS for Mac handed out to Seagate HDD customers, provided of course a third-party software is responsible for this and not a completely faulty laptop device.
Hope my detailed account helps others. I'm personally thinking of returning the device within the 14 days. I can't afford to live with a faulty device.
I am on 10.15.5. The device came with 10.15.4, which I upgraded immediately after setting up the device. I also synced my iCloud during the setup process.
Arrived 2 days ago, at the time of writing it's literally 50h in my hands, has crashed 11 times, of which 10 have given me a kernel panic related error, and one just restarted unexpectedly without giving me the error notice after booting and without using the fans at full speed to cool down as all other times.
Called yesterday Apple support, they walked me through the SMC followed by the NVRAM resets.
The next steps they suggested if this kept happening is to do boot in recovery mode and even try with a new user on the system. They did leave open the room for repair or replacement.
I personally suspect something going on with Adobe CC or a version of Paragon NTFS for Mac handed out to Seagate HDD customers, provided of course a third-party software is responsible for this and not a completely faulty laptop device.
Hope my detailed account helps others. I'm personally thinking of returning the device within the 14 days. I can't afford to live with a faulty device.
no kernel panics here.
I had to force restart the system about 5 to 10 times in the two weeks of ownership and intensive use, I believe for software related reasons. Catalina is much less stable than Mojave, but this is well known by now.
I had to force restart the system about 5 to 10 times in the two weeks of ownership and intensive use, I believe for software related reasons. Catalina is much less stable than Mojave, but this is well known by now.
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7fa281d81c): "Graphics firmware encountered an exception (eip: 0x13912, fault #: 0xd)\n"@icl/sched3/IGGuC.cpp:993
Got the following! New MBP 13" 2020
Got the following! New MBP 13" 2020
Returning both new 13" MBP 2020 back to Apple. I trust the Apple Silicon version will be a lot better!
Had the i5/16/512 for about a month, had a kernel panic for the first time from BridgeOS (touch bar?) the other day.