Re:MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issu...
by theabacus on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:50PM
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I’m sticking with my 2015 15” until it bites the dust and then probably getting something else if Apple hasn’t figured this out yet. Even there software is degrading. I feel like I’m doing better by not running updates (I know this is not so, for security reasons, but...)
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Re:MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issu...
by wild_preference on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @10:57PM
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My favorite is the latest Air (years old now) which doesn’t even have a retina screen yet, a perk in my book.
I could watch Netflix on my bare stomach with my Air. Latest Pro is quickly too hot to handle. Of course not the only issue but the computer never bounced back from that first impression.
The dedicated gfx card doesn’t even seem to run games like Civ 5 better than my Air which I’m guessing is due to all the extra screen pixels.
Re:MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issu...
by jsjohnst on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:35PM
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> I could watch Netflix on my bare stomach with my Air
Don’t try that with a first gen Air. It had a very significant problem with thermal related issues. Several times a week it’d get so hot I could make pancakes off it, the rest of the time it was in a throttled state. Was a very common problem among folks I worked with (albeit mine was a personal, theirs was a work machine) too.
Re:MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issu...
by lloeki on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @08:33AM
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The Air story is incredible. It went from compromising, underpowered, overheating, pricey, loathed and ridiculed, to everyone's favorite laptop, with excellent performance across the board at a stupefyingly low price point.