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I had a 2018 MBP that also got as hot of the surface of the sun. Literally SCRIBBLING with the pencil on a blank canvas in Corel Painter for 30 seconds would se

I had a 2018 MBP that also got as hot of the surface of the sun. Literally SCRIBBLING with the pencil on a blank canvas in Corel Painter for 30 seconds would send the CPU to 90 C. I got lucky with the keyboard on mine but I know quite a few people who weren't or were affected by flexgate. You're right about about resale value. Cult of Apple and all that. I get that looks are subjective but personally I find everything they've made post 2003 to be insanely boring with no real character.

donatj 4y ago
I had that laptop. That generation of Macs had thermal issues. Generation before and after are fine. I'm still happily using a 2012 iMac. No thermal issues.
localghost3000 4y ago
Yeah there is a big ol asterisk around the 2016-2019(ish) era. I stopped buying apple stuff during that time. Thats why I own the oryx!!
nuker 4y ago
> 2018 MBP that also got as hot of the surface of the sun. Mine has dust, Apple store guys cleaned it and issue was gone.
- goosedragons 4y ago
  I don't think dust buildup was an issue out of the box. It always ran hot.
herpderperator 4y ago
Any Intel/AMD mobile processor is going to get hot doing simple things - new or old. It has always been this way. M1/M2 is the way to go if you want cool operation on virtually all workloads.
- goosedragons 4y ago
  Oh baloney. Doing the same thing on my Ryzen 5650U won't crack 50 C, it regularly idles around 30-40 C whereas the MBP I don't think I ever saw below 45. And my prior Skylake system was way cooler too. Usually was around 70 C gaming. The 2018 15" MBP chassis is particularly terrible for the chips they put in there. The i9 infamously would perform worse than the i7 in benchmarks for long duration tasks.
  - stofzuiger 4y ago
    What do you mean? There was no M1 system in 2018. Only the Intel machine with cooling problems. My MBP M1 Pro is usually compiling big chunks of software. (Granted, not as intense as rendering video but definitely more challenging than most games) three to four times as fast as my desktop i9, and after almost 2 years, I have yet to see it reach 40°C. It’s got some hefty fans that simply never have turned on yet, as far as I’m aware.
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donatj 4y ago

I had that laptop. That generation of Macs had thermal issues. Generation before and after are fine. I'm still happily using a 2012 iMac. No thermal issues.

localghost3000 4y ago

Yeah there is a big ol asterisk around the 2016-2019(ish) era. I stopped buying apple stuff during that time. Thats why I own the oryx!!

nuker 4y ago

> 2018 MBP that also got as hot of the surface of the sun. Mine has dust, Apple store guys cleaned it and issue was gone.

goosedragons 4y ago
I don't think dust buildup was an issue out of the box. It always ran hot.

herpderperator 4y ago

Any Intel/AMD mobile processor is going to get hot doing simple things - new or old. It has always been this way. M1/M2 is the way to go if you want cool operation on virtually all workloads.

goosedragons 4y ago
Oh baloney. Doing the same thing on my Ryzen 5650U won't crack 50 C, it regularly idles around 30-40 C whereas the MBP I don't think I ever saw below 45. And my prior Skylake system was way cooler too. Usually was around 70 C gaming. The 2018 15" MBP chassis is particularly terrible for the chips they put in there. The i9 infamously would perform worse than the i7 in benchmarks for long duration tasks.
- stofzuiger 4y ago
  What do you mean? There was no M1 system in 2018. Only the Intel machine with cooling problems. My MBP M1 Pro is usually compiling big chunks of software. (Granted, not as intense as rendering video but definitely more challenging than most games) three to four times as fast as my desktop i9, and after almost 2 years, I have yet to see it reach 40°C. It’s got some hefty fans that simply never have turned on yet, as far as I’m aware.
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