> Yeah, and if this will make the Macbook run so hot it will bend... That's a *b...

_jcwu · on July 24, 2018

Well, VW etc didn't remove emissions control either. They just changed them such that they work better in "benchmarks" at other costs.

Now these laptops work better in benchmark, but at what costs? Longetivity of the laptop or battery? Keyboard melting away?

Obviously it's not going to bend. That was a snarky comment. But you get my point.

ceejayoz · on July 24, 2018

> But you get my point.

I don't, really. They had a bug that caused the chips to throttle down way more than necessary. It's like VW having a car that won't go more than 20mph on a hot day because of some bad software - there's no reason that fixing the software will mean VW cars suddenly can't handle going normal 65mph speeds.

gknoy · on July 24, 2018

It sound like the thermals might be fine, but the interpretation of the metrics were faulty, in such a way that it made the controllers panic and think they needed to throttle the CPU and run the fans hard.

1123581321 · on July 24, 2018

I understand your point but disagree. This fix should provide higher performance at the same temperature. A new risk isn’t being introduced. It sounds counter-intuitive that software can improve hardware performance with no tradeoffs and I’m not sure how to best get past that other than running your own tests and reading others’.