In a refreshingly swift move, Apple has addressed the thermal throttling issues that have plagued their brand new flagship i9 MacBook Pro for the past week. Apple today released an update to OSX High Sierra that patches a “missing digital key” and largely seems to solve the thermal throttling and improve the performance of their 2018 MacBook Pro lineup. For the uninitiated, thermal throttling is a common safety feature that limits the performance of a CPU to keep it from damaging itself under heavy use. Done properly, this can be a subtle way to protect your system without severely affecting performance. If there was no throttling or proper cooling in place, the internal temperature could rise high enough to literally melt your CPU. Not good. Throttling in the real world I’m sure every editor is familiar with that moment where you add one too many effects to your timeline. As the fans spin up to maximum speed, your heart and your playback FPS sink. This is thermal throttling in action. Forced to choose between playing back your clips smoothly and generating an unsafe amount of heat, the computer chose the former. That’s unfortunate, but necessary for your MacBook to live a long and healthy life. But what if it did that all the time, regardless of how many effects you actually added? What seems to have happened with Apple’s new i9 MacBook Pro is thermal throttling taken to the extreme. First reported by Dave Lee, the i9 MacBook Pro displayed...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 26 July, 2018