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it's apples worst nightmare an ambitious new product launch beset by an unexpected flaw that's exactly what happened earlier in July when Apple announced a surprise series of upgrades to its 13 inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops the most notable of which was the ability to add Intel's new 6th core Core I 9 processor to the 15-inch MacBook Pro almost immediately the first people who bought these new systems started reporting problems when they were running very intensive particularly video encoding and video rendering tasks they found that the high-end processors would throttle essentially the processor would think that it got too hot it would ramp down its clock speed in order to bring the temperature down and then once it was cooler it would go back up to its normal clock speed not expected behavior especially in a very high-end very expensive laptop people even found that last year's model which topped out is just a core i7 processor could perform some of the same tasks faster without all the throttling people were mystified we looked into it ourselves here we lined up a 20-18 Core 9 9 15-inch MacBook Pro and the 2017 core i7 version said it's work doing a fairly complex task and we saw very simply that our clock speed went up and down like crazy ping-ponging along with the temperature on the new model whereas on the 2017 model it remains steady which is what you'd expect while Apple now says they have investigated the issue and discovered a simple flaw basically a software bug that was causing this rattling to happen with these high-end CPUs it actually affected every new macbook pro 13 inch 15-inch the core I 9 models and other models people just saw it in the high-end core 9 models because that's where they were trying these very intensive very high-end tasks so Apple now says the software bug which affected how the thermal system work is being fixed with a new update that you can download now and that should cause this problem to go away and instead of this up-and-down throttling you should have even performance just like you'd expect we're gonna download the new update as soon as we can run some more tests on it but that is one has been happening with Apple's new 13 and 15 inch MacBook Pros a unexpected software bug causing CPU throttling that hopefully has been solved already