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Apple Bitz XL w/ Brian Tong

Apple Releases Throttling Fix For 2018 MacBook Pros. Does It Actually Work? (Apple Bitz XL, Ep. 20)

Apple Bitz XL w/ Brian Tong

Apple Bitz XL Podcast w/ Brian Tong

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Apple acts quickly and says they’ve identified a bug that caused the MacBook Pro to throttle and has released a software update. Apple’s trailing behind Samsung and Google in Internet speeds performance, and what is Apple’s actual vision these days? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm going to let you ease into this.

0:05.0

What's up everybody?

0:10.0

Welcome to the show, it's the Apple Bits X L Brian Tong here holding down the fort for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple

0:18.1

For those of you that are listening Apple bits nation. We're here. This is our deep dive podcast inside the world of Apple.

0:25.0

If this is your first time because you've seen my YouTube stuff and now you're like,

0:28.0

oh, I want to check out this audio podcast.

0:29.0

Welcome to the show, but for everyone else that has been here from the start even from way back when I

0:34.2

appreciate you I appreciate you all so much so again the show is all about you call in

0:39.5

833 triple 8 a bxel that's 833 AAA, 8, 8,000, 823,

0:45.0

828, 2, 2, 9.5, your name where you're from,

0:48.0

your comment, your perspective, your correction,

0:51.0

your good apple, bad apples, we love to hear it all, try and keep it around a minute, and we do have voice calls that we're putting in the show today.

0:57.8

You know, we had an interview last week, so we've got to kind of balance this out and just kind of keep you on your toes. But let's get into the real business here, the Macbook pro.

1:07.6

Last week, Dave Lee, youtuber, put up a video saying how it was excessively throttling the machine when dealing with high-end tasks, 4K video,

1:19.0

multi-computational work?

1:21.0

Well, Apple this week just a day ago released what they're calling a

1:26.7

fix for the thermal throttling issue. Now this is Apple's statement. I'll just read the first two paragraphs, but this is what Apple is saying.

1:36.0

Following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads, we've identified there is a missing digital key in the firmware that impacts the

1:45.4

thermal management system and could drive clock speeds down under heavy thermal loads

1:51.4

on the new Macbook Pro. A bug fix is included in today's Mac OS

1:55.4

High Sierra 10.13.6 supplemental update and is recommended, we apologize to any consumer who has experienced less than optimal performance on their new systems.

2:07.0

They mentioned the new performance that you're going to get basically what they had said in the specs when they first released it

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