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Video Raises Concerns About Excessive Thermal Throttling On 2018 MacBook Pro With Intel Core i9 (macrumors.com)
Last week, Apple announced new MacBook Pros, including a 15-inch model that supports Intel's 6-core 2.9GHz i9 processor. YouTube Dave Lee managed to get his hands on this top-of-the-line device early and run some tests, revealing that the laptop gets severely throttled due to thermal issues. 9to5Mac reports: Dave Lee this afternoon shared a new video on the Core i9 MacBook Pro he purchased, and according to his testing, the new machine is unable to maintain even its base clock speed after just a short time doing processor intensive work like video editing. "This CPU is an unlocked, overclockable chip but all of that CPU potential is wasted inside this chassis -- or more so the thermal solution that's inside here," says Lee.
He goes on to share some Premiere Pro render times that suggest the new 2018 MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip underperforms compared to a 2017 model with a Core i7 chip. It took 39 minutes for the 2018 MacBook Pro to render a video that the older model was able to render in 35 minutes. Premiere Pro is not well-optimized for macOS, but the difference between the two MacBook Pro models is notable. Lee ran the same test again with the 2018 MacBook Pro in the freezer, and in cooler temperatures, the i9 chip was able to offer outstanding performance, cutting that render time down to 27 minutes and beating out the 2017 MacBook Pro.
He goes on to share some Premiere Pro render times that suggest the new 2018 MacBook Pro with Core i9 chip underperforms compared to a 2017 model with a Core i7 chip. It took 39 minutes for the 2018 MacBook Pro to render a video that the older model was able to render in 35 minutes. Premiere Pro is not well-optimized for macOS, but the difference between the two MacBook Pro models is notable. Lee ran the same test again with the 2018 MacBook Pro in the freezer, and in cooler temperatures, the i9 chip was able to offer outstanding performance, cutting that render time down to 27 minutes and beating out the 2017 MacBook Pro.
Issues like this, the keyboard, lack of ports, sd card slot, overpriced, usually outdated, and they are even internally hiding the iGPU on dedicated GPU models form OtherOS, so they consume more battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Intel issue my left nut. Intel had nothing to do with Apple's decision on what processor to use or how to design their thermal solutions. It's rich how you try and blame Intel for something that is entirely Apple's fault.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
New iPhones 8 are thicker and heavier than the 7 (to include inductive charging among other things), new design consists of removing ports, new features are made of animoji and face recog... Then they had to upgrade the Macbook internals, because people complained, and result is something that cannot keep up with its own engine. Have they even _seriously_ tested the thing before selling it? Like they tested Apple Maps 6 years ago ...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
It's almost as if Apple doesn't understand what a computer is for.
Based on how many they still sell, I'd say they know exactly what a computer is for; their target audience*
* = Actual computer skill not required. Packaged by fashion, not function. Contents may settle after shipping.
No, it's why engineers focus on thermal design as an important issue when designing laptops. Or at least, they're supposed to. I have a high-end laptop and it rarely throttles, even under constant heavy load. Why? Because it wasn't designed by amateurs. Stop making excuses for crap. This isn't rocket science, this isn't something new that humans are only just starting to figure out; engineers have been successfully designing laptops for given thermal loads since probably before you were born. If you advertise that it supports a given CPU, it better support that configuration with relatively minimal throttling, or don't advertise it as such.