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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by stephen_g on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:30PM (#18970168)
If I recall correctly, wasn't that just a power management bug that was fixed a year ago?
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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by LoSboccacc on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:37PM (#18970249)
They fixed the excessive bugged throttling but significant throttling is still there https://cdn-macrumors-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/cdn.ma...

It's a direct result of their form factor.

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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by endorphone on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:20PM (#18970730)
>but significant throttling

Is an 8% drop really significant? Further all modern Intel processors aside from a few low clocked Xeons throttle. That's the whole point of the "turbo" speeds -- they utilize what they can within the thermal threshold.

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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect by LoSboccacc on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:19PM (#18972022)
you still get the baseline performances; turbo extends that for workload that use less than full cores. this makes the cpu go below the baseline.
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