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

Post by dewski » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

bischofs wrote: post #328

At this point, people in the Mac hardware engineering leadership need to start submitting their resignations or being forced out. This kind of sloppy engineering and lack of product focus is the antithesis of what Apple has stood for. If I were Tim Cook I would fire Dan Riccio, and then resign myself and hand the company over to someone who cares about products and not supply chain optimization. Also the whole execut…

Post by wareotie » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 2:10 PM UTC

pentae wrote: post #277

wareotie wrote: post #244

I bought the MacBook Pro 2017 13" without touch bar with an i7. I pretty happy with it, but, the only thing that bothers me is it gets hot. Hot as hell. Skype sharing the screen and JetBrains CLion and you get a beautiful roaster.

FYI, I went through the same experience as you and returned it after discovering the non-touchbar model has one less fan. Apple clearly hates the customers who don't want to buy the touch bar model.

Post by MaxBarraclough » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

morganvachon wrote: post #293

tjoff wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> since modern thermal pastes are non-conductive, there is no real downside to an enthusiastic application of paste except for making a mess, so you want to default to putting too much on rather than having some dumb intern kill a PC with an insufficient application. There is virtually no effect on thermals. The effect on thermals are absolutely not insignificant. Thermal pastes are actually extremely bad at transfer…

> For example, the thermal conductivity of a high-grade thermal paste is 8.5 W/mK, and the heat conductivity of copper is 385 W/mK, or for aluminum 205 W/mK. You can see that the thermal compound is actually a poor heat conductor and that is exactly the reason why you only need a very thin layer of paste to fill the micro imperfections between the IHS and heatsink. This has always been my rule of thumb whether it's m…

Post by roryisok » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 2:16 PM UTC

bischofs wrote: post #328

At this point, people in the Mac hardware engineering leadership need to start submitting their resignations or being forced out. This kind of sloppy engineering and lack of product focus is the antithesis of what Apple has stood for. If I were Tim Cook I would fire Dan Riccio, and then resign myself and hand the company over to someone who cares about products and not supply chain optimization. Also the whole execut…

Post by roryisok » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

gnrlbzik wrote: post #332

Is this due to their focus on iphone and ipad? Probably and very likely, if I remember, most of their hardware talent had been pulled at some point to work on things that bring more money, these products get less attention. Looks like mac line upgrade cycles suffers due to that, don't quote me though.... But on the other hand this is good that it a came out, should be fixed in next upgrade I would assume, no wonder w…