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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 i

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.
    - dylan604 6y ago
      I said OLDER MBPs. This was before TB3 was even a thing
mlindner 6y ago
Yes it was with specific models, but it's got nothing to do with the T2 chip. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find-cause-of-high-kernel-task-cpu-usage/363933#363933 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...

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.
  - dylan604 6y ago
    I said OLDER MBPs. This was before TB3 was even a thing

mlindner 6y ago

Yes it was with specific models, but it's got nothing to do with the T2 chip. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find-cause-of-high-kernel-task-cpu-usage/363933#363933 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...