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Additionally charging on the left side ports makes the T2 chip overheat and crashes the machine on occasion.

• simonklitj 6y ago
  What if you have a model with ports only on the left-hand side? Does it crash it as well?
  • imwillofficial 6y ago
    Mine doesn’t.
  • rorykoehler 6y ago
    I'm not sure. I have a 2019 mbp 16 with a dodgy logic board and while it crashes even without charging on the left it definitely crashes more often when charging on the left. I'm stuck in limbo because I need my machine for work. Will take it in when I have a break. Some threads https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250905859 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250905859 https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2019-16-inch-macbook-pro-crashes.2220219/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2019-16-inch-macbook-pr...
    • dylan604 6y ago
      Are the Apple Stores in your area even open to take the laptop in? I have delayed my attempt to get my keyboard looked at because of Covid.
      • rorykoehler 6y ago
        In Berlin everything is pretty much open (loosely enforced indoor mask and social distancing mandates). They’re not trying to eliminate the virus here like they do in Singapore or Australia. They track 3 values and depending on the scores they escalate or ease restrictions.
      • simonklitj 6y ago
        Have found success with pressing hard on stuck keys to unstick them.
    • ohmaigad 6y ago
      I also have 2019 MBP16 and i am using a dock/charging on the left side - i think the system froze once in a year so i don't seem to have this issue.
      • rorykoehler 6y ago
        Did you buy the stock spec or custom?
        • ohmaigad 6y ago
          Stock with i9, 16GB RAM, Radeon 5500m, 1TB SSD
• rootsudo 6y ago
  REALLY? Okay, I'm going to test this. I noticed odd hangings and cpu hitting high temps on a MBP 2018' w/ dell usb C dock on left side, meanwhile right side is fine but I had to reboot randomly and sometimes it will just crash. And this is a MBP on a laptop stand.
  • dylan604 6y ago
    I never had mine crash, but if I charge on the left hand side, the temp of the laptop increases to the point of needing the fan. Charging on the right hand side does not cause this problem. I had never paid attention to what side I was charging on until earlier this year when someone posted about it. After trying the right hand ports, I could see a difference.
  • fennecfoxen 6y ago
    Docks on the left side, or similar devices which provide both power and send data, seem to be particularly problematic. On advice of my employer's IT department I went from "spinning up new VMs in VirtualBox reliably leads to thermal excess, CPU throttling, and total system shutdown" to a system that actually works -- just by moving the dock connection to the right side. It's a little funny because the advice used to be you should use the left-side USB-C ports first because they were faster (both for data and charge, IIRC?)
    • sdoering 6y ago
      What? I have to test this. I have my 4k monitor also providing power. Being a lefty I always plug it into the left side. Need to test this. Thanks for the information.
    • dylan604 6y ago
      On one of the older MacBookPros, the left hand USB port was USB3 while the one on the right hand side was USB2
      • jiveturkey 6y ago
        T3 vs USB3, not USB3 vs USB2.