Docks on the left side, or similar devices which provide both power and send data, seem to be particularly problematic. On advice of my employer's IT department I went from "spinning up new VMs in VirtualBox reliably leads to thermal excess, CPU throttling, and total system shutdown" to a system that actually works -- just by moving the dock connection to the right side.

It's a little funny because the advice used to be you should use the left-side USB-C ports first because they were faster (both for data and charge, IIRC?)

What? I have to test this. I have my 4k monitor also providing power. Being a lefty I always plug it into the left side. Need to test this. Thanks for the information.

On one of the older MacBookPros, the left hand USB port was USB3 while the one on the right hand side was USB2

T3 vs USB3, not USB3 vs USB2.

I said OLDER MBPs. This was before TB3 was even a thing

I never had mine crash, but if I charge on the left hand side, the temp of the laptop increases to the point of needing the fan. Charging on the right hand side does not cause this problem. I had never paid attention to what side I was charging on until earlier this year when someone posted about it. After trying the right hand ports, I could see a difference.

Yes it was with specific models, but it's got nothing to do with the T2 chip. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...