Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features by behnamoh on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:18PM (#25813906)

Agreed. I wouldn’t touch any post-2015 MBP, but I wish I had bought one with dedicated graphics card. With each new version of macOS, things have gotten so much slower and laggy, even though I have disabled almost every unnecessary process and app in the OS.

The other day, I was working with a 2011 MBP with graphics crad and Chrome was much faster in that compared to my 2015 MBP. I think the graphics card does improve web surfing quite a bit.

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Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features by alisonkisk on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:40PM (#25815248)

The dedicated graphics cards have a terrible feisgn flaw that burns 10-20W at idle when an external monitor is plugged in. This is a problem daily, while a non-dGPU laptop handles external monitor just fine.

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Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features by behnamoh on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:09PM (#25815616)

No it doesn't. My MBP can't handle a 27 inch external monitor without putting so much pressure on the CPU. If it had a dedicated GPU, that would take care of video output and not make the mac drain its battery by having the CPU fans at +6500 RPM all the time.

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