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

Post by morganvachon » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 10:11 PM UTC

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> 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…

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Post by xyzzyz » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 11:02 PM UTC

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“Creative” workloads require sustained CPU tho’ and that’s who Apple claims this is for

Which "creative" workloads? Video, 3D, and photography mostly require sustained GPU. For audio, it's more the CPU.

Post by corey_moncure » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 12:18 AM UTC

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Have you taken the Surface Book 2 for a spin? Pricey, but gives the MBP a good run for its money, and does a couple tricks the MBP cannot, such as having an excellent touch/pen surface for a screen. Real ports, including SD card. The outstanding downside is, of course, the abominable Windows 10.

How often do you rely on the touch screen? I know it seems like a naive question, but I have an older surface pro and I rarely used the touch screen. The machine itself was bulkier than an iPad or Nexus9, so I tended to use those instead for tooling around and mindless consumption. The surface pro was pretty much useless for actual work unless I had a second monitor, actual keyboard, and trackpad. I do native Windows…

Post by bradknowles » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 3:48 AM UTC

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But the price for this machine is crazy, and it doesn't support a use case where you actually use the i9 cpu for long periods of time... Why do you need it then? To open the browser a few milliseconds faster? It's not a professional machine if it's throttling heavily under load so you can't use its resources....it boggles my mind that it's even allowed to sell something like this. It's like selling a supercar which c…

Not disagreeing with you, but as it happens the Bugatti Veyron can't do the full top speed for very long (Michelin won't guarantee the tires to run above 250 mph for more than 15 minutes.).

Post by gurkendoktor » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 8:35 AM UTC

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I like how you note the customer needs have no role in the Apple design process.

The fact that Apple is the most successful company in the world seems to suggest that their method of thrilling the customer by subverting and surpassing their expectations beats building what the customer says they want. In the case of laptops, it turns out that lightness and battery life -- portability -- is what people actually want, otherwise they'd just use desktops.