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Re:Apple releases software fix for MacBook Pro slowdown by unknown_apostle on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:42PM (#17603819)
Even with the fix, I'm afraid you're still shilling out a lot of money for top hardware that can't be used to its maximum extent. Because of the thin form factor limitations, insufficient thermal design and possibly even something as silly as not using the best thermal paste.

And the system as a whole will still run quite hot for high CPU+GPU loads, so who knows how that affects the electronics and battery life longer term.

Please, Apple, just make it 1mm thicker already.

Re:Apple releases software fix for MacBook Pro slowdown by ben010783 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @02:46PM (#17603848)
People bought them knowing that they were making tradeoffs in performance, but the real problem was that the computers were not even hitting their advertised specs.
Re:Apple releases software fix for MacBook Pro slowdown by Razengan on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @05:12PM (#17604983)
They're still very good when you consider everything across the board, including the battery life, ecosystem and support, and apparently the best in some areas like SSD performance:

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/13/2018-macbook-pro-fastes...

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/2016-macbook-pro-ssd/