You might want to hold off on buying a new i9 Macbook Pro.

18-07-2018 06:21AM #1

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/8zq5gn/the_core_i9_15_inch_macbook_pro_throttles_itself/

Out of all of Apple's oddities, this takes the cake.. The i9 gets to hot so it automatically throttles down after a few minutes making it slower than older i7 models.

What is the point in even releasing something like that. I feel like AH is an ok forum for this so people can see it and take note.

irishguitarlad · 18-07-2018 06:26AM

It will look good in Starbucks though whilst you're writing your novel.

Canis Lupus · 18-07-2018 06:27AM

On the one hand this is bad.... On the other hand I have little pity for someone who buys a macbook pro.

I'm very conflicted over this....

18-07-2018 06:30AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

On the one hand this is bad.... On the other hand I have little pity for someone who buys a macbook pro.

I'm very conflicted over this....

Meh, if you have the cash, Macbooks are good. Never had a Pro but had a regular 13" one nearly a decade ago and enjoyed it. Then Linux for two years, and now back to Windows where I'll stay.

Hector Bellend · 18-07-2018 07:50AM

nice bit of an aul macbook

jacksie66 · 18-07-2018 07:53AM

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Wompa1 · 18-07-2018 07:59AM

Have a 2013 Macbook Pro. The resale value for it is more than I paid in 2013! It was my first MacBook so I'm not huge into the history and ins and outs of the different models but it reads like my MBP was the last really good one made. They must have changed their tact when Jobs died.
I like my MacBook but don't think I'd pay the money for another one.

Giblet · 18-07-2018 08:14AM

jacksie66 wrote: »

It's gas that you have to buy a separate adaptor to plug your apple iPhone into your apple macbook..

Sure I've been in meetings where we handed around a Macbook Air because we couldn't connect it to the projector without the right dongle. Those rare HDMI interfaces...

seamus · 18-07-2018 08:18AM

At €3,000 €4,000 (!) a pop, you can be pretty sure I'll be steering clear of Apple's 100% markup laptops for a long time to come OP.

Overpriced rubbish.

Banterbus28 · 18-07-2018 08:20AM

Just get a mac mini

JigglyMcJabs · 18-07-2018 08:23AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Meh, if you have the cash, Macbooks are good. Never had a Pro but had a regular 13" one nearly a decade ago and enjoyed it. Then Linux for two years, and now back to Windows where I'll stay.

A macbook from 10 years ago is a different beast, much better than the style over substance rubbish these days. I just pushed the button on a new pc laptop and I'm retiring my mac, I got an incredible spec for less than mac money and I can upgrade my own ram/ssd when I want to.

18-07-2018 08:24AM

Some family members have macs but i never got into them at all. Windows for gaming anyway

B-D-P-- · 18-07-2018 08:24AM

Fierce expensive paperweight....
Although the kind of person who buys one wouldn't know what paper is....

OldMrBrennan83 · 18-07-2018 08:25AM

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Signore Fancy Pants · 18-07-2018 08:29AM

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Wibbs · 18-07-2018 08:48AM

JigglyMcJabs wrote: »

A macbook from 10 years ago is a different beast, much better than the style over substance rubbish these days.

This. They had their pros and cons, but over the last few years I really don't know what they're smoking. Perfect example: dropping their clever and very practical magnetic connection for power on their laptops in favour of USB 3 "thunderbolt" sockets(indeed the only connections on them). I suspect because "it looks good". Their aesthetic design was always part of their appeal, but it was backed up with good engineering design too. Put it this way; the laptop we use today regardless of the OS owes a huge debt to Apple's design and innovations down the years(obvious things like keyboard near the screen, palm rest below. Trackpads. to name but two). Now the aesthetic types seem to have taken over. QV Jonathon Ives.

EG: Powerbook G3 from twenty years ago.

Two decades old with USB, Firewire, DVD writer(remember those), RAM expandable to one Gb, Hard drive up to 120 Gb, wireless, ethernet, 8-10 hour battery life with two batteries on board, upgradable CPU. There wasn't another manufacturers laptop that could rival it.

When even many dyed in the wool Mac fans consider a four or five year old Macbook better than their latest models it speaks volumes. It's convenient to pin down the fall off with Steve Jobs' death, but it fits well with when the rot set in.

18-07-2018 08:53AM

Chewbacca wrote: »

I'd say you did, you dirty minx!

Yeah, a 13" black one was all I wanted back then, though I reckon I'd prefer a 15"-17" by now. A lot more room for it.

valoren · 18-07-2018 08:55AM

Is the MacBook even a core product any more though?
Is Apple even a 'computer' company anymore?

OldMrBrennan83 · 18-07-2018 08:56AM

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padjocollins · 18-07-2018 08:59AM

i have a mid 2010 macbook pro , it's still great, one of the last bunch that you could change the battery, ram and harddrive , now it's needlessly soldered or glued on . apple are damaging themselves but they don't care as they know the iphone is the cash cow.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 18-07-2018 09:09AM

valoren wrote: »

Is the MacBook even a core product any more though?
Is Apple even a 'computer' company anymore?

Yes, they still are.

I doubt the validity of this claim based on one guy on reddit. Overclocked CPU’s can clamp their power but the question would be why it was overclocked in general use. I doubt that that is common.

padjocollins · 18-07-2018 09:24AM

i'm hoping my next macbook pro will have an arm cpu, 22 hr battery life, and have a micro led display (so i can use it outdoors in the sunlight) . not realistic, arm cpu's are prob 2020 at the earliest, micro led displays, a few years after that

Permabear · 18-07-2018 09:36AM

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_Kaiser_ · 18-07-2018 09:37AM

It's not just Macbooks to be fair.. a lot of the recent ultrabook models from other manufacturers perform worse than some of their older versions because of compromises made to keep the heat down and the chassis thinner.
I manage an IT department and it's something we've seen with each new generation of laptop we've ordered.

As padjocollins said above as well, they've also become less user-serviceable with everything now soldered to the motherboard (rather than replaceable RAM, CPU etc) and hard to work on from a servicing perspective.
Even "normal" non-Ultrabook models have been affected. The Lenovo T470 and new T480 for example are a pain to open up and the plastics are extremely thin (we've already had to replace one bottom cover because it wouldn't properly latch to the dock). It used to be that you could just swap a bad CPU or whatever but now its a whole new motherboard each time. This will also hurt the value once they go out of warranty.

It's a combination of the rush towards lower costs/more profit and a consumer drive to want everything as thin and light as possible.

pickarooney · 18-07-2018 09:43AM

Permabear wrote: »

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Pick up a pencil and avoid the distraction of the internet every time you do a bit of research even.

Permabear · 18-07-2018 09:50AM

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Grayson · 18-07-2018 09:51AM

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Meh, if you have the cash, Macbooks are good. Never had a Pro but had a regular 13" one nearly a decade ago and enjoyed it. Then Linux for two years, and now back to Windows where I'll stay.

I was given the a macbook pro in work last year. I'd only used windows and linux till then. It's rock solid hardware wise but the OS still feels lacking. I'd never buy it for myself. It costs a fecking fortune and it won't run most games. For that price I could get a windows machine with better spec that would do everything the macbook does and more.

Grayson · 18-07-2018 09:58AM

Wibbs wrote: »

This. They had their pros and cons, but over the last few years I really don't know what they're smoking. Perfect example: dropping their clever and very practical magnetic connection for power on their laptops in favour of USB 3 "thunderbolt" sockets(indeed the only connections on them). I suspect because "it looks good". Their aesthetic design was always part of their appeal, but it was backed up with good engineering design too. Put it this way; the laptop we use today regardless of the OS owes a huge debt to Apple's design and innovations down the years(obvious things like keyboard near the screen, palm rest below. Trackpads. to name but two). Now the aesthetic types seem to have taken over. QV Jonathon Ives.

EG: Powerbook G3 from twenty years ago.

Two decades old with USB, Firewire, DVD writer(remember those), RAM expandable to one Gb, Hard drive up to 120 Gb, wireless, ethernet, 8-10 hour battery life with two batteries on board, upgradable CPU. There wasn't another manufacturers laptop that could rival it.

When even many dyed in the wool Mac fans consider a four or five year old Macbook better than their latest models it speaks volumes. It's convenient to pin down the fall off with Steve Jobs' death, but it fits well with when the rot set in.

I mentioned in a previous post that I have a macbook pro. The one with that touch bar thingy. I get all the latest accessories in work. So I have a mac keyboard and the magic mouse. Both keyboard and mouse come with a regular usb connection for connecting to the macbook. And you need to connect them by cable to sync them the first time. However as you mentioned, the macbook has usb-c. So apple actually provide accessories that you can't fecking connect to the computer.

18-07-2018 10:07AM

Macs are far far superior to windows machines despite what the Apple haters like to think. They are expensive but so are comparible windows machines problem is people compare an Aldi bargin laptop to a MacBook Pro and cry about it being way more expensive.

I have a top of the range windows laptop provided by work and it’s left in the drawer of my desk gathering dust as I much prefer to use my own mackbook pro instead which on paper has lower spec but in practic is far superior.

As the saying goes, once you go Mac you’ll never go back.

18-07-2018 10:11AM

Jett Spoiled Yearbook wrote: »

Macs are far far superior to windows machines despite what the Apple haters like to think. They are expensive but so are comparible windows machines problem is people compare an Aldi bargin laptop to a MacBook Pro and cry about it being way more expensive.

I have a top of the range windows laptop provided by work and it’s left in the drawer of my desk gathering dust as I much prefer to use my own mackbook pro instead which on paper has lower spec but in practic is far superior.

As the saying goes, once you go Mac you’ll never go back.

Did you just make up that "saying", nox

18-07-2018 10:12AM

bluewolf wrote: »

Did you just make up that "saying", nox

Nope, that saying has been around for years.

You might want to hold off on buying a new i9 Macbook Pro.

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