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    Here's Ars Technica take on the issue (they haven't tested yet the update):

    "However, we remain eager to test this ourselves. It's possible that the firmware update will markedly improve performance as Apple has promised but that the MacBook Pro's thermal management system will still not be up to the task of drawing optimal performance from the Core i9 CPU in particular. While the i9-8950HK in the 15-inch model's top configuration has the same Thermal Design Point (TDP) as the i7-8850H one step down, the latter has a configurable TDP down of 35W, and the i9 doesn't. Further, a max turbo frequency of 4.8GHz is aggressive. When Apple first designed this chassis, Intel was likely telling the company that this generation of CPUs would be down to 10nm, but that did not turn out to be the case. The verdict is not in yet.

    We're hoping for strong, mostly consistent performance after the firmware update, but we still don't know for sure whether this MacBook Pro design can fully accommodate that CPU. In any case, we'll certainly share our findings later this week."

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/…

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    • just do the update and then write about it. waste of timedocpoz
    • their concerns are still valid I think, correlates with other comments I've seen about the TDP and the current MBP designernexbcn
    • + the Intel roadmap and not getting yet to 10nmernexbcn
    • I think they could make the pro range bigger. We're not looking for ultra thin laptops, we want work horses that are portable.shapesalad
    • Intel's moores law is out the door and it has bitten Apple in the ass. Shit like this though fuels fire for them to make their own pc cpu's.inteliboy
    • No doubt their own cpus are on the way. They do a damn good job with the A series so far. Metal Architecture for a graphics system too.monospaced
    • ^^ A series ARM chips? Those cannot compete with Intel x86 performance in any way. Maybe i3's, but that's it.section_014
    • @shapesalad I agreeernexbcn
    • no ... just saying that their work on the mobile chips is a sign that their workstation CPUs are very, very likely ... the A series are very impressivemonospaced
    • They've already published a roadmap to use their own CPUs, 2020 I think is when they say they want to switch.zarkonite
    • makes sensemonospaced
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