My MBP is currently running at ~800 MHz; it will be until about October or November, when I feel the coming chill of winter upon my skin. macOS thermally throttles the chip down, even if the chip is not actually that hot: the CPU is only ~65℃. But the surface temp on the keyboard is 109℉. All I can guess is that even though there's plenty of thermal headroom at the chip, you'd roast the user's hands if you attempted to use it. The fans cannot move the heat away from the CPU and out the back sufficiently fast, and too much ends up bleeding out the keyboard.
But now you have a 2.4GHz i9 limited to 800 MHz. During a meeting, it can't really do anything else, VC eats the available compute.
This is pathetic. Perhaps IT is different where you are, but my IT is out to lunch. IT is "hand new hire a new MBP" and … that's it? Unless a literal hole ended up in it¹, they're not going to replace it, ever.
Spolsky wrote that one of the "rules" for SWE firms was "Do you use the best tools money can buy?" — he wrote that that was table stakes, and if you're not doing it, you're nuts. He wrote that in 2000, nearly twenty-three years ago.
But tech cos love the MBP; IT teams only want to support one model of machine, regardless of how much of a lie that is (there are multiple models of a MBP deployed over time in a company) or how ill-suited a MBP is for the task at hand.
Absolutely I'm losing at least 20% if not more waiting multiple seconds for keyboard input to show up. Being unable to look things up during meetings, meaning mistakes get made, begetting more meetings.
¹Hmm. HMM.
Then there's the keyboard. The display cable connection. It goes on and on…