That's because Dell doesn't give two tugs of a dead dog's dick about the customer or the product after the sale is complete.
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Tests Confirm Apple's Throttling Fix Improves Performance for 2018 MacBook Pro Models [Updated]
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No i like the mac but also wanna run windows so bit of a stupid reply isnt it
Because showing an actual problem with a new product is 'hating' now.
Geez, I thought the Tesla fanboys are the worst.
Because (1) Dell is not Apple (2) Dell doesn't run Mac OS X (3) Dell's aren't as expensive as Macs.
Managed to get a steady 2017 3.8 Ghz out of the i7 HQ at 77 .4 Celsius , all cores this evening.
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Jumping the gun? The product was released to market and didn't perform as advertised. They called Apple out and got a quick fix. Seems pretty groovy to me. It remains to be seen if the i9 upgrade offers any tangible benefit.
Well... my question is how did this get past their testing? Are you telling me that they don't do performance tests like David Lee did?
That actually wasn't my experience after my purchase of an XPS-13 Developer's Edition (came with Ubuntu pre-installed) 18 months ago. Dell engineers personally responded to certain issues with firmware updates to address the Spectre security problems with Intel CPUs, and also dealt with users experiencing "coil whine" - an irritating high pitched hum some folks had (fortunately, not I) - with prompt attention. Perhaps the Dell folks behind the "Developer Edition" project are more attentive than the rest of the Windows oriented tech people, but I have had no complaints with them. I'm typing this on my little XPS-13 right now. It's about 18 months old and has served me well as a Linux platform laptop. I don't run enough CPU intensive applications to experience throttling, though my 2 core i7 CPU tends to run a little warm - usually around 50 C. Just for the heck of it, I ran Geekbench on it today, got expected performance, and the CPU hit around 85 C during one benchmark testing multi-core. Just my experience. BTW, running Geekbench on my 2017 iMac with a Core i5-7600K (4 cores), it outperformed the i7-7500U (2 cores) by roughly 30%. The 4 cores in the desktop i5 outperform the 2 cores on the laptop i7, and runs about 15 degrees C cooler on average.
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Well they said it was just some driver or kext not working due to a missing signature, so it sounded like a single thing.
I may be participating in this nerdy forum, but I'm not nerdy enough to follow Dell news.
Why? It was a real problem that the Youtuber brought to light. For what would they apologize? Sorry Apple God we found an issue with throttling. Please forgive us!
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Well Apple moto is It Just Work (until it doesn't then we deflect to other companies). But what about Dell?
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Apologize that they found a problem? If anything, Apple should be thankful of these vloggers finding a bug in their firmware something that Apple missed.
Yeah i suspected that. The update is only for macos. You might try undervoliting in bootcamp
Oh, thank god this criminal caper has been solved! Now techie boyz can go back not only to making their 4K unboxing videos, but their Marvel CU breakdowns and videos about how women are ruining "Star Wars"! Hooray!
Yeah dell has improved their customer service, but their machines are little buggy than the macbooks. Thats my personal opinion though. If macbook pro throttling wasn't fixed i was thinking about a dell xps
It Just WorkThanks for making his point
Performing worse than previous gen isn't exactly tiniest is it? Also it just work until it doesnt then we go to whataboutism.
It is not a Windows machine so no, it wasn't a "stupid" response. Get over it! Be happy Apple even allows such a crappy OS to run at all on their machines.
I wonder how well the new MacBook Pro performs when sitting on a cold pack the size of those thicker heavier noisier Core i7/i9 laptops? Just pull an ice pack out of the freezer when you need a bit of extra performance?
I hate such idiotic comments!
Because they follow the ever popular „if you are not for us, you’re against us“ spin.
Tell you what:
The world has more than two colors. There is bashing and there is justified criticism. It’s NOT the same. Be grateful instead and keep your hate for other opinions for yourself!
Also don‘t believe for a second that Apple would have fixed it without the massive bad press - at least not that quickly.
I don’t give Apple (or any other company) the benefit of the doubt. Why?
Here in Germany in many many stores it’s almost impossible to get Genius appointments exactly since the start of the free keyboard repair program. But Apple claims it only affects a minuscule number of people...
And it also only happened after massive criticism.
Criticism can lead to things getting better for the customer. Sorry, but that’s a fact.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/technology/apple-allows-windows-on-its-machines.html
"We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in a statement.
I think Apple is happy that the customers were considering or have made the switch. Just saying.