If you plan to buy or bought a 2018 MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, make sure you install the macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update. With the update, we saw more level, consistent wattage. Before the update, we witnessed wild fluctuations this photo was taken before the update. In addition to Intel Power Gadget, we used a watt meter to watch the MacBook Pro’s power consumption. It sparked speculation on many websites that it was purposely removed to stop people from monitoring their MacBook Pro performance.) IDG
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(Interestingly, Power Gadget was upgraded from version 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 during the whole MacBook Pro controversy, and was not available for download for a while as the upgrade was being made. Once installed, we saw more “flatline” type results in Power Gadget, with the CPU better able to maintain its power consumption, temperature, and base clock speed.
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The macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update had a calming effect on the CPU. IDGIntel Power Gadget running on an updated 2018 15-inch 2.9GHz MacBook Pro. The temperature and power consumption also showed a lot of variance. CPU clock speeds often dipped down to 2GHz, and as high as 4.8GHz, the laptop’s Turbo Burst speed. When we rendered the video using Adobe Media Encoder CC, we set the Renderer to the Mercury Playback Engine Software Only setting in order to isolate the CPU.īefore the update, the 2018 MacBook Pro demonstrated a lot of throttling in these tests, and the charts in Power Gadget sometimes looked like erratic scribble marks. (You can watch the video on YouTube.) We exported a video to the H.264 format using the YouTube 2160p 4K preset and with Maximum Render Quality turned on. This test involved an Adobe Premiere video project created by the Macworld video team. We also tested the 2017 15-inch 2.9GHz MacBook Pro for reference. We ran the tests on the 2018 15-inch 2.9GHz Core i9 MacBook Pro before and after the update. This suite of tests are benchmarks that perform tasks that a professional might do. Macworld Podcast: What we know about the MacBook Pro throttling, how it was fixed, and what it means for Apple The throttled MacBook Pro: Discussing the heat problems with Apple’s new laptopĪpple says, yes, the new MacBook Pro is throttling, but here’s the fixįirst impressions of the macOS MacBook Pro update: It looks like it does fix the CPU throttling
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