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Macbook “Pro”.
It pains me how correct this feels. The MacBook Pro becomes an echo of itself every generation. Soon, the beat fades and we're left in the dells
The heat off that MBP reminds me of how hot my early 2011 15" MBP got. I suspect that the heat was the culprit for the GPU failures that gave the 2011 model its notoriety.
I thought that was gpu manufacturer issue? I recall Nvidia specifically had a lot of issues across many oems.
IIRC the "recall" involved replacing the logic boards with refurbs having the same GPUs. The CPUs on the boards seemed to be throttled after the replacement.
I don't know a lot about heat dissipation, but could the slimness of the MBP be a factor in this? I would think that after a certain point, you wouldn't be able to get good airflow in such a small space.
That's seems to contradict a recent benchmark/post [1] which showed impressive CPU performance from the i9 MacBook Pro. [1] http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180712/
That's seems to contradict a recent benchmark/post [1] which showed impressive CPU performance from the i9 MacBook Pro. [1] http://hrtapps.com/blogs/20180712/
Dave Lee ran some tests that took a half hour to complete with the CPU pretty much maxed out. I would imagine the CPU was running hot for most of that time.
For example, the biggest thing affecting battery life is thermal load. The biggest thing affecting the maximum sustained power of a laptop or phone is the thermal design. Anyone can slap a cheap, powerful chip in; good thermal design is much harder.
I think people are going to start realizing this more and more, especially as powerful chips get extremely cheap.
I don't know a lot about heat dissipation, but could the slimness of the MBP be a factor in this? I would think that after a certain point, you wouldn't be able to get good airflow in such a small space.
I don't think Apple (or most other PC vendors) use the best thermal compound on their CPUs.
When my early 2011 MBP was having heat problems, I replaced the compound over the CPU and GPU and got noticeable although not spectacular reductions in heat.
Of course, that's not something you can do on a "modern" Macbook Pro, since they're not intended to be user serviceable any more.
His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there's "something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received".
Yes there's something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?
Dave Lee's youtube video is a withering takedown, presented dispassionately. His argument is such a slam dunk that the article concludes with stunned disbelief, speculating that maybe there's "something wrong with the MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip that Lee received". Yes there's something wrong with it, that was the exact point of his video. Do people really think he just got a lemon?
If you watch a lot of his videos, you'll notice that he almost always talks about thermals, so it's not surprising to see him focus on that aspect of the MBP.