I am pretty disappointed to say the least. It's like an ever-present noise that I can only imagine must be how low levels of tinnitus feels to people who have to deal with that type of thing. > I immediately noticed I felt slightly 'uncomfortable' when it was on, and within about 30 seconds realised that it was emitting coil whine at a volume/pitch high enough to physically bother me. First we need to disassemble this notebook and identify the noisy parts. > As Coil Whining is a big problem on this model we will try to find out witch parts are causing this noises. I'm gun shy, because of potential coil whine: It hits much of the same great balance as the 16" MBP, and like the Macbook Pro, it has a 16:10 display. I'm seriously considering the new XPS 15. Many 15" laptop vendors include a numeric keypad, which is a deal-breaker for me because it forces you to type at an angle to keep your hands centered in front of you when in the home position. The Surface Laptop 15" uses a 15W ultra-mobile processor in a machine that runs $2,800 when configured with 32GB of RAM, and has a battery half the size of the one in the MBP 16". Alternatives like the XPS 15 or Lenovo X1 Extreme force you to choose between an FHD panel and good battery life, or a 4K panel and substantially shorter battery life. It compromises by using a 3K screen instead of a 4K screen, and gets 11+ hours of light usage. For me, the 16" MBP is the perfect balance of power, weight, and battery life. I sold my maxed-out X1 Carbon 7th Gen, which in less than a year: a) came with an LTE card that never worked for more than an hour at a time b) had the display bezel start peeling off (it's a sticker!) c) developed a bunch of dead pixels d) started randomly locking up e) had weird issues with power usage, where some service related to the touchpad would go crazy and start using all the CPU.Ģ) Other laptop makers make design choices and trade-offs that I find unacceptable. Honestly, it's a harder decision to send it back than you might think, for several reasons:ġ) The hardware quality of other OEMs is bad too. I've got a brand-new 2019 16" and am dealing with the widespread crashes on wake from sleep. Eventually the machine will kernel panic after several minutes. Repeat this until the UI starts freezing / video acceleration stops working.Ĩ. If machine doesn't freeze, repeat the cycle from step 4.ħ. Wake it again and re-test video acceleration.Ħ. Run the video acceleration test in Video Proc, start playing a H.264 / H.265 video in Safari or export a H.264 / H.265 file from FCPX / iMovie.ĥ. Safari playing Youtube, exporting with FCPX / iMovie).ģ. Open Video Proc or any other app utilizing hardware video acceleration (e.g. Use any Navi10 or Navi14 graphics card inside a Mac Pro 2019, eGPU case or use a MacBook Pro 16.Ģ. Eventually, after waiting for long enough, a kernel panic occurs and the machine reboots.ġ. The mouse can still be moved but the UI is non-responsive. > After waking from sleep and running a process using hardware accelerated video decoding / encoding, the UI will freeze for a couple of seconds, then starts working again, then freezes again, and so on. I didn't wade through that entire thread, but the most recent post has a specific set of circumstances:
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