Disagreed. It is the software developer's job to find out their market and tune their apps appropriately.
Also, XPS 15 with i9 chip has the same issue. Same goes for the Alienware 15 R4 (even when running a CPU only test and not using the giant GPU, the thermals in that huge laptop doesn't prevent the CPU from throttling)
Look at it this way... The gas your car uses drives the design of the car? So Texaco is better than Gulf for your Ford? Sorry guy it doesn't quite work that way. While crappy gas can play havoc of your cars fuel tank & engine it could have come from any gas station.
So what does that have to do with Hardware vs Software?
It's basically the same! Your Mac is like your car and the software is like the gas. Yes, poor software will mess you up but thats not happening here! There are too many people running different software seeing this failure. So everyone is running crappy software NOPE!
A firmware fix is all thats needed - NOPE! Not really, it can mask some of the issue by altering the fans engagement slop (running it sooner or higher RPM). But just like someone bailing out a sinking boat if the water is coming in faster than you are getting it out, you're with the fishes! The slope change only starts the bailing a bit sooner thats it!
Messing with the voltage can buy some improvement but again you need to have cherrypicked the best CPU's so you don't encounter a crash (frozen process). Apple didn't do that did they ;-}
Change the thermal paste to something better - Not really an option here as you would void your Apple warranty!
That leaves us with only one thing left! Increase the heatsink mass (I would double it) and I would also triple the fin surfaces and add additional heat pipes. The air flow its self will need to be improved as well.
Thats the rub theres no room to do this in this system frame Apple (and the other thin systems) failed to address the needed cooling of this chip.
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I’m all for choice and I commend Apple for offering top of the line processors, however, it’s baffling that it was still implemented knowing that other manufacturers were having problems with thermal management. It feels like an afterthought to be honest.
The person(s) holding the trigger for shipping the system was not paying attention to what was happening. And/or the engineering group was not forceful enough to stop it if they had misgivings! There was time (granted very little) but they could have stopped it. Now they need to put the product on hold, get the systems back that were shipped and very quickly redesign the upper case with the needed thickness to add the needed heatsink subsystem and the needed venting and fans. If they work real hard breaking the task down into different groups it could be spun in about 4 to 6 months of very hard work. Then there is the safety and emissions testing that would need to be done with the new design and putting it into production. One big mess!!
The last part is recovering the parts from the older systems! Sadly, they can't sell these as new, they will need a fire sale or lease them out.
If they trash them I would have a big problem with that, as we are talking millions of dollars of systems going into a shredder! Thats not ecology minded!
