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by crsmithdev 2579 days ago
How hot will this thing be with 8 cores? Unless they've cut some ventilation holes in the bottom of the laptop. MBPs aren't exactly known for good thermal regulation (my previous one I had to actually undervolt the CPU so it wouldn't overheat while playing games for even < 30m).

Don't see anything re: keyboard so guessing that there aren't any changes there, unfortunately.
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macbookcabler 2579 days ago
Dave Lee made a video about the Core i9 (now previous generation) that thermal throttled almost immediately under load. The throttling was so terrible it actually performed worse than the 2017 MacBook Pro.

https://youtu.be/Dx8J125s4cg

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jnskw 2579 days ago
That was a software bug IIRC
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jwatt 2578 days ago
His follow-up video after the patch, FWIW: https://youtu.be/UTguywiC9aw
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TenJack 2579 days ago
That's exactly what I'm wondering. I returned a recent 2019 MBP because it was getting so hot just after an hour of normal usage.
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