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Tinfoil hat: they knew the M1 macs would be a big draw and got intentionally soft on optimizing 2019 intel models.

• mthoms 5y ago
  There's some truth to this but I don't think it was necessarily intentional. It must have been an "all hands on deck" situation getting M1/Rosetta ready. I'm PO'ed either way. My 2019 16" has been plagued with this issue.
  • ENGNR 5y ago
    Same, it’s so frustrating not being able to run a cut down dev setup (webpack, backend, vscode and browser with one tab open), no other programs running… and also an external monitor. Without about 15 mins it grinds to a halt, and nothing I can do about it except research other laptops with better cooling
• colordrops 5y ago
  Well they lost me. I ordered a Thinkpad through IT and am moving to Linux for my main after multiple presentations in front of hundreds of people that went south due to throttling. I'm not gonna get fired due to apple incompetence (or greed if you are wearing the tinfoil hat).
• eyelidlessness 5y ago
  2019 was the year they released the 16” MBP and redesigned the keyboard to be a slimmer version of the pre-butterfly design. That’s a lot of industrial design to put into phoning it in.
• viktorcode 5y ago
  You got that backwards. MacBooks of different kinds were plagued with overheating issues for many years. I still remember daily struggle trying to keep 2011 Pro running cool. Eventually, Intel's inability to provide power efficient and performant CPUs on schedule led to Apple dedicating themselves to producing their own chip. So, it is because of constant overheating issues we have M1 now.