I have a 2014 mbpro. It was working fine but when I try to export from final cut it crashed. After restart I tried to export again and it said that my battery was dying (it was at 55%) then powered down
macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#372I have a 2014 mbpro. It was working fine but when I try to export from final cut it crashed. After restart I tried to export again and it said that my battery was dying (it was at 55%) then powered down
This is actually the 1st time the mb ever crashed. I've had no issues with it
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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Personal experience: XPS 15 overheats and becomes extremely slow. Maybe it's a user error... Touchpad hardware is good, but the software and adjustability... it's nowhere comparable to a Macbook.
What does task manager say is causing the CPU to be used so much that it overheats and thermally limits itself? Have you used Sysinternal's Process Monitor or Process Explorer or any of the tracing tools already built into Windows to see why it's slow? If you've got some service running behind the scenes and keeping the machine busy, of course it'll be "slow".
> Have you used Sysinternal's Process Monitor or Process Explorer or any of the tracing tools already built into Windows to see why it's slow?
Yeah, poked it a bit, took some ETW traces. Couldn't find any good reason for it to behave like that with a low CPU load.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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> by the most reliable major manufacturer in the industry You might want to revisit that. If you are looking for reliability, ThinkPads are way better.
I've owned four Thinkpads in my life (T42, X61s, T410, T420). Still got 'em. Every single one of them has one or more hardware issues. YMMV.
Oh and I forgot my T60! That one straight up died.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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I was recently using Bootcamp on a relative's 2020 Macbook Air, and I was generally impressed with how well everything worked. Especially the Trackpad, which I remembered being a problem under Bootcamp many years ago. If I didn't dislike Windows so much, I thought I could see myself using that setup full time. I didn't look at battery life though.
Even my old MacBook Pro 2012 in BootCamp is very poor under BootCamp. Getting the right drivers for it is the worst bit because who knows whether I should be using Bootcamp 5 or 6? The display brightness and volume keys no longer work. The discrete GPU is used all the time so battery life is very bad. The touchpad works fine though!
> Getting the right drivers for it is the worst bit because who knows whether I should be using Bootcamp 5 or 6
I mean, I'd use whatever the heck Bootcamp Assistant downloads for me automatically. I don't think I've ever thought about Bootcamp versions.
Never had issues with brightness and volume keys either...
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#376Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even my old MacBook Pro 2012 in BootCamp is very poor under BootCamp. Getting the right drivers for it is the worst bit because who knows whether I should be using Bootcamp 5 or 6? The display brightness and volume keys no longer work. The discrete GPU is used all the time so battery life is very bad. The touchpad works fine though!
> Getting the right drivers for it is the worst bit because who knows whether I should be using Bootcamp 5 or 6 I mean, I'd use whatever the heck Bootcamp Assistant downloads for me automatically. I don't think I've ever thought about Bootcamp versions. Never had issues with brightness and volume keys either...
What magic do I need to perform to do this? It worked and then stopped working after a Windows 10 update and Bootcamp 5 (for my 2012 mac) doesn't know about Windows 10 drivers or something...
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does task manager say is causing the CPU to be used so much that it overheats and thermally limits itself? Have you used Sysinternal's Process Monitor or Process Explorer or any of the tracing tools already built into Windows to see why it's slow? If you've got some service running behind the scenes and keeping the machine busy, of course it'll be "slow".
> Have you used Sysinternal's Process Monitor or Process Explorer or any of the tracing tools already built into Windows to see why it's slow? Yeah, poked it a bit, took some ETW traces. Couldn't find any good reason for it to behave like that with a low CPU load.
This sounds like a challenge!
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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What kind of 90's hardware you have that you can't run MacOS on it? I've been running MacOS in both Hackintosh and virtual machines for over a decade now.
I've done a VM of macOS on Windows but it doesn't have hardware acceleration and is against Apple's terms isn't it?
1 - Hardware acceleration can be used if you use the right virtualization tool.
2 - Not really. On paper perhaps. On real life not really. I had Apple support live via screen-sharing and it was about my app (well, my client's app) on their store. They couldn't care less that I was running High Sierra on a VM. Maybe because the project I was working on was a successful app that was bringing revenue to them (and my client as well)? In the end money talks.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#379> The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery's lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery's temperature history and its charging patterns. > Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery's maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure tha…
Swollen batteries were a result of design/manufacturing defects. It was certainly a common issue 5-10 years ago but should hopefully be a thing of the past by now. Modern batteries should never swell, but will still wear out over time. Smarter battery management should be able to extend their lifespan.
> Modern batteries should never swell, but will still wear out over time.
Unfortunately they still do.
Saw at least 2 Dell's and 2 macbook pro's with swollen batteries in the last 1-2 years, and this just in the colleagues in my immediate vicinity.
It's pretty scary when the touchpad starts to misbehave and you realize the whole macbook starts to bulge.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#380My MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) was having kernel panics multiple times a day after having been asleep for extend periods. This was extremely annoying, as you can imagine. I’m happy to report that the Catalina 10.15.5 update fixes the kernel panics for me. The issue I experienced has been well documented [here]( https://mrmacintosh.com/10-15-4-update-wake-from-sleep-kerne... ) and elsewhere on the web. I use my MacBoo…
> My MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) was having kernel panics multiple times a day after having been asleep for extend periods. This was extremely annoying, as you can imagine. I’m happy to report that the Catalina 10.15.5 update fixes the kernel panics for me.
Will update ASAP. Thank you for beta-testing this!