I got to use this laptop for a few months because the company that I work assigned it (it's still better than shitty thinkpad t540 as windows/linux alternative).
But holy shit. The thing never works at full performance. As soon as I start compiling stuff, it just throttles way down to 800 mhz because the shit easily reaches 99C. I thought that was faulty but everyone's macbook is like that. So basically fully aluminum shit can't even cool a fucking CPU. The screen, trackpad, build quality overall is very good and unlike any other laptop I've ever seen, the OS is at least unix with great fonts.
But there is no way you can keep the CPU above 2.5ghz. This is literally a fuck you to the owners. I'm glad I haven't paid for this shit. I will probably go for dell xps 15 as my next windoze/linux laptop. At least it doesn't throttle or your warranty is not void for replacing the thermal pads.
Mine seems to run fine (rMBP 15"). It usually hovers around 37 celsius when doing average work, and 60 celsius when doing some heavy processing. You can use smcFanControl to force the fan speeds to be higher if you need to, but I'd make sure it's not defective (if you're still using it).
Camden Brown
Post a timestamped picture of it.
Andrew Bennett
>at least it's UNIX Gave it away right there, delete this bait NOW
Brandon Lewis
timestamp
Michael Ross
fans are too loud I think.
take it
Camden Barnes
ISHILLS BTFO
Hunter Williams
Now copy your post into textedit and post a photo.
James Ortiz
yeah i almost bought one, but then i saw that a shit load of people had overheating issues in the mBP. lol its just normal they live with it.
captcha: THERMO PIANA
haha
Cooper Jenkins
Bad choice
Colton Stewart
what the fuck do you want
it's definitely problematic and apple doesn't claim that it's a fault.
Josiah Miller
i had a macbook air that throttled
Logan Sanders
bsd is unix, stop being a memester neckbeard.
Juan Ortiz
macs are better. You cant fuck it up
Austin Ross
if you mean imac 5k, then you can be right because you can't buy a 5k monitor and a i7 4790k based pc at that price anywhere else. idk how apple was actually able to sell something at that price.
you should repaste after the warranty ends. Applel is known for overapplying thermal paste in their laptops.
Adam Wood
No piece of paper will ever turn your toddlerOS pajeet skiddie code into UNIX code.
Jacob Garcia
fuck off from the thread back to >>>/reddit/ with your shitty "le pooing indians and gay CEO xD" memes.
Anthony Robinson
i don't have a mac
Dylan Gray
>he uses chrome and ms office on his macbook No shit it's getting throttled, those apps are terribly optimized just for the sake of you wanting to switch to their own products.
Adrian Brown
ti dolbaeb? huy sosi, ebanie suka.
pizdets.
Samuel Barnes
OP is full of shit.
>>Late 2013 Macbook Pro 15" 2.5Ghz
Noah Nelson
Sup Forums's resident XPS marketer is at it again
Jason Martin
Stock clock on this model is actually 2.3Ghz, Turbo Boost pushes it out to around 3Ghz pretty consistently.
Jaxon Hill
I got i7 4980HQ model.
Camden Taylor
>212°F
Ryder Williams
Are you that guy from yesterday who couldn't install python and the other week when you couldn't figure out how to quit a program?
Joshua Powell
>throttlebook pro
Eli Gutierrez
It's not a problem
Eli White
sure, things will be fine. keep running those burn in tests without any kind of real cooling.. it'll all be fine..
Cameron Hernandez
100C is the thermal limit at the die, senpai.
OP is either obstructing the cooling vents, or is using the computer in an environment that is already far too hot.
Apple's specs page says 35C ambient temperature is too hot for the Macbook Pro to operate optimally.
Matthew Ross
i7 4980hq goes up to 4.00ghz in theory. But it never exceeded 3.20ghz. huge kek
John Edwards
I'm just running a video encode using Handbrake, good core utilisation, good real world demonstration.
Keep in mind, that temperature reading is on-die, the CPU proximity reading is 68C. By the time it reaches the Fin Stack it's only 49C.
Hudson Lopez
Yea, it will. It's 105C max.
Grayson Young
Did you know that manufacturers can change turbo multipliers?
Connor Brooks
>i7 4980hq goes up to 4.00ghz in theory
Single core Turbo Boost. Most applications these days won't utilise just one core.
fucking shit, how can they even fuck the shit up with huge heatpipes and a whole aluminum body? even shitty T420 with quad core i7 attached can't exceed 90C with that shitty one pipe cooling.
Brody Sullivan
That's not at all healthy. If you regularly do work that makes your laptop reach 96C, then stop using your laptop for it. Apple gets shat on a lot for this, but I'd prefer an OS that throttled my laptop to make it always stay below 90C than one that would let my die burn.
Robert Sullivan
windows on macbook directly throttles it down to 800mhz while os x just lets it burn at constant 100C.
Jason Rodriguez
lolll you niggers are so cucked
Nathaniel Taylor
I don't think any of you have any idea what you're talking about.
This computer is not overheating, 98C at the die is perfectly acceptable. There's over a dozen other temperature sensors throughout the machine that monitor thermal performance, and if any of those values went too high, the SMC shuts the computer down.
It's a nearly three year old machine, worked as hard as that fairly regularly, and hasn't had a single problem, not a single thermal shutdown.
Landon Flores
>98C at the die is perfectly acceptable FUCK OFF
Ian Jackson
On the die, yes it is. Intel's spec sheets say so.
Owen Reyes
>98C at the die is perfectly acceptable >2 degrees below the temperature where the hardware itself shuts down to avoid being irreparably damaged is perfectly acceptable Christ.
Josiah Ward
>On the die, yes it is. >Intel's spec sheets say so. Stop arguing with people that have no idea what they are talking about. They are here to spout memes and make themselves feel better before they get bullied tomorrow in school again.
Liam Allen
Why do you think you know better than the engineers?
Brandon Martin
TJMax is maximum operating temperature, stupid.
Bentley Clark
degrees below the temperature where the hardware itself shuts down to avoid being irreparably damaged is perfectly acceptable
Intel's thermal limit is 100C, once it gets to that limit it will start to throttle, it's almost impossible to thermally damage a CPU these days, unless you do something retarded like crank it to 100% with no cooling or some other retarded shit.
Logan Long
>Christ. That's not completely correct. It's only 100 for the old CPU in OP's case but it is pretty much consistently 105 for the following models and different people posted screenshots here. There were a few MBP models that had serious cooling/throttling problems like OP described them but these are old models now. The problem was kinda "fixed" by CPUs having lower TDPs these days and what OP describes is no longer an issue (unless your machine is defective). This doesn't make it good or Apple any less shit but spreading lies (as in: this is still being the case) is not gonna help.
Jayden Campbell
Honestly, it's fine. Macs are actually well engineered.
Easton Collins
If you kick up the fans to 85% speed it'll stay around 80C, even.
Christian Evans
Now look at my post and make a picture of it
Bentley Fisher
Yeah, the max is 6000RPM, but it rarely gets up that high. Good balance of cooling and fan noise.
Jaxson Johnson
> magbook DDD Cucked winfag can't type : in his filenames
David Jenkins
I'm on OS X, faggot.
John Fisher
Where did your :DDD go, then?
Zachary Anderson
How many watts do SSDs use a piece? I was thinking of getting two 240gbs but I want to know if I need to upgrade my power supply for that
Noah Nguyen
Unless it's some crazy specialist high-performance drive, not a lot. Laptops will often see an improvement from going to an SSD so they use less than a 2.5" drive. Probably no more than a few watts each at most.
So no, no need for a new PSU.
Adam Smith
>Macs are actually well engineered.
Jeremiah Wright
I haven't seen it get up there on mine, but I don't have an i7. Mine will rarely break 50% speed. I manually set it to 85%.
Cameron Campbell
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Asher Scott
Can confirm. Macs are pieces of shit. Mine melts my thighs right off if I make the mistake of watching a HD youtube vid full-screen or watching webms for too long. Don't even get me started if you try to use it outside on summer, it goes into like 200 C and sounds like a leafblower. Quality hardware my ass, I was amazed when I learned this is what macfags have been living with the whole time while touting their superiority.
Levi Fisher
Wait 100 degrees while compiling? Imagine lying on bed watchin anime while compiling something, damn.
My shitty 4 year old laptop doesnt go over 80...
Tyler Parker
The default fan curves are retarded. I use smcfancontrol to manually set the fans to 50%, 75% or full blast depending on what I'm doing. Also got rid of Chrome and I don't watch any HD video thru Firefox since its shit and packs on the heat. I can stream 4k thru Safari and it doesn't even warm the CPU enough to kick this fans over idle.
I had to do similar things with my T420 because with turbo on it heats up to nearly 80C. You dont want to be running your CPU near TJMax because even though your CPU can handle it, the components close to it will begin to break down. I actually killed my rMBPs SSD because it was going to 90s while playing WoW.
The rMBP is not really a machine you can do too much CPU intensive work on it because the cooling took a backseat to being thin and pretty for normalfags. It's a sad thing but I'm hoping Apple comes to their senses and makes a laptop that can hang with the best of the Pros instead of a deceiver that's nothing more than a premium word-processing and internet machine.
Apple if you're reading this get your shit together. People who use your computer's for real work are a big part of your success.
William Mitchell
>Firefox since its shit and packs on the heat It's not really firefox's fault. It only works fine on any other PC, but on mac you get third degree burns and lose your hearing. I'm having to use an rMBP too and it really still feels like some sort of cruel joke to me.
Evan Bennett
Let me buy a brand new Super car then fix all the roads so I can drive it. That's not how you problem solve.
Gavin Ross
Sure buying a $1800 (lowest config, upgrading to a 4790k increases the pricr to $2100) AIO with a 5K display is probably more sensible than buying a $1500 5K monitor and a PC for some people but someone who needs a 5k display probably does intensive work. The 5k imac also suffers from throttling so it isn't really a good match for video editing and such.
Leo Garcia
>using ithings for actual work they're made for rendering webpages and checking email
Kayden Williams
Apple are still selling the 2011 Macbook Pro on their store.
This is how much they care.
Wyatt Kelly
>build quality overall is very good and unlike any other laptop I've ever seen >can't even cool its CPU >g-good build quality guys... !
Andrew Robinson
>a CPU running consistently at 96 degrees is totally fine
I wouldn't want a laptop that can cause third degree burns
Christopher Williams
Which CPU is that?
Caleb Mitchell
>temp goes up when downloading stuff >temp go up when updating brew >temp goes up when watching 1080p with mpv
man, I'm starting to regret buying this now. But with the formfactor and batt life, it should be ok right? I don't think the xps 13 would be any better too?
Ryder Carter
Here is laptop with only 68 degrees cpu on idle but dont worry its chilly 50 when it reaches your lap. Whats not to like?
Ryan Flores
>xps They're good from what I've heard. Was going to buy one until I was assigned with my present throttlebook
Logan Morris
Macs are bad because of the gay stereotype that exists solely on this board because of Sup Forums and Sup Forums 14 year olds shitposting, also apparently having a gay stereotype attached to it means the computer is inherently bad somehow because this is middle school. Use windows senpai buy an DELL™ XPS 15
Jaxon Clark
did we hit a nerve :^)
Brandon Rodriguez
>a CPU running consistently at 96 degrees is totally fine Yes, it is.
Xavier Robinson
Buy some of this and clean out your computer you dumb fuck. I've had a MBP for 5+ years and it can run at full speed on the GPU and CPU for hours. Clean your fans from the back or open it up and blow out the dust.
Adam Richardson
Even on Windows Firefox performance is poor compared to the other browsers. If it weren't far and away the best browser for using addons I'd have dropped it a long time ago. As it is I use it just for Sup Forums and sites that don't play well with Safari.
Eli White
>If it weren't far and away the best browser for using addons That's all the reason you need for using it. Too bad that they're dropping that upside soon, making every single browser on the market either shit or lackluster
David Allen
>Macs are actually well engineered. He said, while posting a picture of a device that one could boil an egg on.
Zachary Wilson
You could not.
Dylan Rivera
>CPU at 99C No, you pretty much could. Just as well as an egg could be boiled on a GTX 480. On top of that, two shitty turbine fans spinning at 4.4k and 4.1k RPM will sound like a bloody jet engine too.
This is, as a matter of fact, anything but well engineered. If you think it's well engineered, you are delusional.
Noah Foster
You're a retard.
Eli Morris
Daily reminder that Applel products are shit
Noah Nguyen
Ah, the retorts of an Apple fanboy.
Carter Bell
Not even, you're just a retard. You're not boiling anything on a 48W chip.
Ethan Rodriguez
>Temperatures within 1% of boiling point Right.
Levi Morgan
Did you even pass high school?
Jayden Cruz
>CPU nearly running at the boiling temperature of water is fine
Being able to cook meals on your laptop must be truly convenient
Xavier Jenkins
>thinks a CPU runnung at 98 degrees is fine >calls others retards
At least your overheating memebook has probably ensured that you won't be able to breed by making you infertile with heat
Hunter Lee
yeah, it's totally fine, especially for a mobile device with a non swappable battery