When they figured that out, I think they tried to figure out how to resolve it.” “The first step was to try to replicate this, to find out what was causing it. “It was impressive to see how quickly they worked with the community find out what was going on,” he says. Lee tells TechCrunch that both Apple and Premier Pro-producer, Adobe, were quick to reach out after the video was posted. Lee says he was surprised to find that his own workflow was taxing to the system compared to the ones others shared in the online community after the initial video was posted.Įven so, as Apple makes a major push to recapture the hearts and minds of creatives, it will require systems that can handle just about anything creatives can throw at it. Among other things, workflows vary a good deal from case to case and user to user. They work well as for sterile, laboratory testing, but don’t always offer a decent stand-in for real world usage.

That puts it over the top.”īenchmarks often only tell part of the story. “It only occurred because this particular CPU is as power-hungry as it is. “It was an issue that was unique to this year’s version, particularly the i9,” Lee told TechCrunch, in a followup interview this week. In the video, Lee speculated that the laptop’s chassis (unchanged from the previous generation) simply couldn’t cool the i9 properly. Counterintuitive to say the least - and something that appeared to be some sort of system throttling, in order to deal with overheating while exporting. The YouTuber found that exporting video with Premier Pro actually took longer on the new models sporting a top of the line Core i9 than they did on last year’s model running an i7. But in amongst those reviews, Dave “D2D” Lee reported some troubling findings in a video titled “Beware the Core i9.” The laptop performed admirably and racked up some impressive benchmark scores in our testing that were in line with the performance boosts recorded by Geekbench itself. The reviews have been largely positive, as well - our own included. In preparation for the launch, the company seeded souped up versions of the notebook with a diverse array of creative professionals, who happily discussed the ways in which the new specs have improved their workflows. Apple came out swinging when it announced its latest MacBook Pro update earlier this month.

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