

Apple has called the issue a bug in their thermal management system, where a missing digital key caused clock speeds to throttle unnecessarily. While this sounded great for productivity on paper, things were a little more complicated in reality, as users started to report decreased performance over the system's quad-core 2017 counterpart thanks to thermal throttling related issues.Īfter almost a week of radio silence, Apple has finally released a response to their performance woes, releasing a firmware update that will offer users higher performance levels under high thermal loads.


Apple released their 2018 MacBook Pro with the promise of increased performance, upping the system's maximum core count from four to six while also delivering the series' first Intel i9-class processor.
