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Tested: Thermal conditions in the 2018 i9 MacBook Pro dramatically hampering performance
I sincerely hope that people out there run these tests across ALL the 2018 Macbook Pros, including the 13" models, to see if any of them can out perform the earlier models.
It's so ironic - I'm used to dealing with Apple not designing Macbook Pros to handle the GPUs, because they design the thermals for the base configuration. I always get the high end version, and I always have heating problems. So when I saw that Apple now has discrete GPUs in ALL versions of the 2015 Macbook Pro, I thought "FANTASTIC! Apple will finally have to design the thermals to accommodate a discrete GPU. And now this happens.
Did I mention the enormous volume of these fans drives me batty? I had to hack my Macbook Pro to keep the fans on all the time at a low level so that they wouldn't spike up to a high level whose I couldn't bear.
Well, at least the keyboard works now. -
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