Extremely disappointed by this. Dave Lee is very trustworthy and his reviews are always on point. Waiting for a good iMac - with proper review before purchasing.
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YouTuber Claims 15-Inch MacBook Pro With Upgraded Core i9 Chip is Severely Throttled Due to Thermal Issues
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Are these the only two bullets in your gun? 'Cuz you shoot 'em an awful lot. I'm guessing it's a derringer.
They want every article to generate traffic. It's how they eat.
You're 100% right. Other machines are struggling with the i9. What does that have to do with this story about the MBP?
I hope Lisa of MobileTechReview would release her review soon.
Are they the same size though? The extreme desktop parts are much larger than their normal counterparts.
I'd say so.
I'm returning the the 2.6/16/512 model I bought and replacing it with the 2.2/16/512 version.
I think the 2.6 i7 is probably the sweet spot. It is a shame since the i9 has 3MB more of L3 cache as well as the 300 MHz higher base clock speed.
The wiki entry for the touchbar MBP generation breaks down all the specs in good detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Technical_specifications_4
How ignorant can you be? Grow up. Apple is selling garbage admit it.
That is why Geekbench and Cinebench results are entirely different. This is a huge disappointment for me.
Either your computer gets cold,...or you do.. take your pick. You only have soo many jumpers to spare.
You’re not at 100% utilization.
Yeah, but do you have 1.4 million subscribers?
That's why MacRumors won't post your results to the front page.
why is this surprising? the thin-over-everything ethos has been cooking macbook's internals since before the days of Retina displays...
Cant even sustain base speeds !!! Apple has been giving stepmotherly treatment to its mac lineup for a long time now. Maybe they saw the backlash and decided to just stuff a powerful cpu in their anaemic laptop without any redesign, which nobody asked for (thinness I mean) in the first place, definitely not the pro users.
ARM is what every iOS device and smartphone uses. They are RISC like the former PowerPC CPUs instead of the more commonly used CISC. They don't manufacture CPUs like Intel but license their designs so that companies can make custom modified designs instead. I believe it is also cheaper and gives companies more flexibility.
Correction: Apple failed at designing a cooling solution to prevent severe throttling for all use cases.
Also, hating on Apple is easy and is guaranteed views and subscribers and money.
Dave Lee is the real deal. You're just embarrassing yourself.
The die size is a fraction the size of the package it sits in, the package is the same size in both cases. 45 watts of heat is 45 watts of heat regardless of the size of the die.
To be fair the i9 is simply an option. It is available and they are offering it for those who want it. It is neither mandatory nor is it a mainstream CPU. Most people are never going to buy i9s and Xeons.