Comment by aeyes
2 hours ago
> Intel really made themselves unpopular with Apple during that period.
You can't tell me that this wasn't known by Apple before shipping the product. Why did they not provide adequate cooling for the CPU?
2 hours ago
> Intel really made themselves unpopular with Apple during that period.
You can't tell me that this wasn't known by Apple before shipping the product. Why did they not provide adequate cooling for the CPU?
This was a laptop, so cooling was very constrained. The fans can only be so big & you can only shift so much air in & out of a MacBook.
I presume Apple knew perfectly well but wanted the halo product to sell to those people who will always pay extra for the perceived “top of the line” product. Once Intel branding had created an i9 that was a bigger number than an i7, then Apple was going to sell it.
It was faster than the i7 after all: just not for very long!
My entirely speculative theory is that the poor thermal characteristics of that era of Intel CPUs didn’t really become apparent until quite late in the development process & by that point Apple had probably committed to buying a fair chunk of Intel’s output.