MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber

Post by skgoa » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 10:08 AM UTC

Kurtz79 wrote: post #242

slantyyz wrote: post #20

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In fairness, Lee criticized the Dell XPS 15's thermals in a video a couple of days ago. Of course, he also posted a video last week about how he was starting to hate Apple products. 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.

I have had thermal issues both in my old Lenovo T61P and a more recent Macbook Pro 15, both with dedicated graphic cards. No replacing of soldering paste on my part was ever able to improve the situation, with the result of having powerful machines only on paper, that were brought to their knees even by light workloads. My Mac becomes impossibly hot and slows down playing games like Hearthstone and Civ5, FFS. I have…

Post by Shivetya » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 10:11 AM UTC

owenversteeg wrote: post #17

I keep seeing thermal issues come back to bite some of the smartest companies with products designed by the world's best engineers. Everything from batteries to laptops to phones is severely affected by heat, and improper thermal design can lead to some huge issues. 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 th…

Post by whywhywhywhy » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 10:13 AM UTC

wukerplank wrote: post #108

slantyyz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fairness, Lee criticized the Dell XPS 15's thermals in a video a couple of days ago. Of course, he also posted a video last week about how he was starting to hate Apple products. 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.

In all fairness: If you sell a >3000€ laptop, people should expect to get the full value out of it. Maybe it's hard to cool CPUs in thin laptops. But then don't let people pay for expensive upgrades that have no performance benefit.

Post by garmaine » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 10:18 AM UTC

LyndsySimon wrote: post #94

newnewpdro wrote: post #79

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That doesn't strike me as particularly noteworthy/unexpected.

You don’t think it’s unreasonable that a laptop should work in daylight?

Post by some_account » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 10:22 AM UTC

arthurfm wrote: post #169

lebrad wrote: post #19

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?

Quinn Nelson (a.k.a. Snazzy Labs) recently did a couple of videos where he replaced the stock thermal paste on a 2017 MacBook Pro with a liquid metal thermal paste [1] and then 3 months later with a standard thermal paste [2]. With the liquid metal paste the CPU temps dropped 10°C, ran 200MHz faster and the MacBook Pro didn't thermal throttle. The standard thermal paste also saw a 7-10% improvement in thermals compar…