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I bought the MBP 16” and when I work with an external monitor it’s like having a hair dryer on. I wish I could just go back to a desktop machine again.

by unvs 7y ago

mvid 7y ago
It might be worth looking into an egpu if you mostly notice it on an external monitor
zten 7y ago
External monitors force the use of higher-power discrete graphics. See an adjacent comment about eGPU if you want to control this better. Edit: admittedly, this is a bit like returning to a desktop...
- unvs 7y ago
  I’d be fine with having an eGPU at the office actually. That’s where the noise gets most out of hand and annoys my coworkers. It’s just a bummer to sink even more money into this machine.
teruakohatu 7y ago
The concensus seems to be this is a GPU related driver or OS bug. Trying changing resolutions or scaling or refresh rate. 2K moniter are supposedly worse than others. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265235 It is a joke that a high end machine has such a glaring issue. Then again, Apple got away from selling terrible terrible keyboards that were not easily replaceable for years.
- unvs 7y ago
  Interesting! Thanks for the link. Not one of my coworkers is getting the 16 after hearing how noisy it is, and they ALL were planning on upgrading. Let’s hope a future software update might improve it.
indemnity 7y ago
Why not both? For 60% of the cost of my MBP 16, I built a liquid cooled Ryzen 9 3900Z beast with 64GB of fast RAM, 1TB NVME SSD, RTX 2080 GPU, driving two 4k displays. I run nixOS on it, my MBP only sees the light of day for things that absolutely require macOS, or when I’m out and about. For normal, mostly stationary dev (Go, Rust), the desktop is miles better.
- jimbob45 7y ago
  It’s been forgotten that PC parts are commodities.
asenna 7y ago
I have the exact same issue on my 16". So much so that I've started preferring using my much smaller iPad as the second screen using the sidecar feature instead of my main 4k monitor. Although I love everything else about the MBP 16, this issue drives me crazy.

I bought the MBP 16” and when I work with an external monitor it’s like having a hair dryer on. I wish I could just go back to a desktop machine again.

by unvs 7y ago

I bought the MBP 16” and when I work with an external monitor it’s like having a hair dryer on. I wish I could just go back to a desktop machine again.

mvid 7y ago

It might be worth looking into an egpu if you mostly notice it on an external monitor

zten 7y ago

External monitors force the use of higher-power discrete graphics. See an adjacent comment about eGPU if you want to control this better. Edit: admittedly, this is a bit like returning to a desktop...

unvs 7y ago
I’d be fine with having an eGPU at the office actually. That’s where the noise gets most out of hand and annoys my coworkers. It’s just a bummer to sink even more money into this machine.

teruakohatu 7y ago

The concensus seems to be this is a GPU related driver or OS bug. Trying changing resolutions or scaling or refresh rate. 2K moniter are supposedly worse than others. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265235 It is a joke that a high end machine has such a glaring issue. Then again, Apple got away from selling terrible terrible keyboards that were not easily replaceable for years.

unvs 7y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the link. Not one of my coworkers is getting the 16 after hearing how noisy it is, and they ALL were planning on upgrading. Let’s hope a future software update might improve it.

indemnity 7y ago

Why not both? For 60% of the cost of my MBP 16, I built a liquid cooled Ryzen 9 3900Z beast with 64GB of fast RAM, 1TB NVME SSD, RTX 2080 GPU, driving two 4k displays. I run nixOS on it, my MBP only sees the light of day for things that absolutely require macOS, or when I’m out and about. For normal, mostly stationary dev (Go, Rust), the desktop is miles better.

jimbob45 7y ago
It’s been forgotten that PC parts are commodities.

asenna 7y ago

I have the exact same issue on my 16". So much so that I've started preferring using my much smaller iPad as the second screen using the sidecar feature instead of my main 4k monitor. Although I love everything else about the MBP 16, this issue drives me crazy.