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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, July 24, 2018
 

 

Apple/Macintosh
  • "Apple Vulnerable in U.S.-China Trade Showdown: The U.S. imported about $45 billion in mobile phones from China last year"  WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:03 AM
  • "Trump may not spare iPhone from trade war" Cult of Mac 10:25 AM
  • "Apple Is in Danger of Abandoning Creative Pros" ["Over the past few years, Apple has trashed its prized laptop keyboard, much to the chagrin of journalists and writers. Apple also ditched the SD card slot; it's been almost two years and there's still no good alternative for photographers snapping big RAW files and videographers shooting 4K all day, at least besides cumbersome dongles. ... Now, the top-end version of its flagship laptop has become Cupertino's latest headache, assuming it can't come up with a satisfactory solution to its Core i9 CPU throttling — this on a multi-thousand-dollar machine that's targeted at exactly the creative pros it claims to support."]  ExtremeTech 8:20 AM
  • "MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update promises to fix 2018 MacBook Pro throttling issues: Fix address a software bug in the MacBookPro firmware that affected processor speed."  Macworld 12:29 PM
  • "Apple identifies and fixes thermal bug in new MacBook Pro" The Loop 12:51 PM
  • "Apple apologizes, issues update for MacBook Pro thermal throttling bug" TechCrunch 12:52 PM
  • "Thinner and Lighter Laptops Have Screwed Us All: The pursuit of thinner, lighter laptops, a trend driven by Apple, means we have screwed ourselves out of performance."  Motherboard 7:42 AM
  • "It's Time to Call Out Laptop Manufacturers for Their Bullsh*t CPU Throttling" ["These issues are not unique to Apple — and we said as much as in our initial coverage — but Apple's Core i9 implementation appears particularly egregious."]  ExtremeTech 7:46 AM
  • "MacBook Pro CPU throttling controversy continues as Intel says it's ok" 9to5Mac 7:50 AM
  • "Verizon Is Seeking Google or Apple as 5G TV Provider"  Bloomberg 7:56 AM