MacBook Pro 15inch 2019 - OVERHEATING

Hi i have just recently got my Macbook Pro and have the exact same issue when using only safari. it is so hot it could burn my son's hand if he touches it. Did your's get rectified and how?

Also it lags sometimes and recently randomly the speakers stopped working, after inserting a headphones jack into the machine they soon started working - how bizarre!

I would appreciate any help.

Hi Dj Sirmis,

I've been having exactly the same issue with my "MacHot Pro".

I spent 4k euros on the model A1908. It is a I9 Intel processor, 32 GB Ram, 512 SSD. I've contacted Apple several times in 2 years and I've opened a lot of service call requests. I formatted my laptop twice, I've reset my SMC 4 times. Battery runs out from 100% to 3% in seconds.

I was getting paranoid with my laptop, checking the temperatures all the time and worried with the laptop and I stopped and ask to myself: "This is mental, this is not my issue!!! This is an engineer problem ! It is a Apple problem and they need to fix it" Unfortunately, they won't and they seen don't care either. Adding on that, today my laptop just fried, smells burnt, monitor is gone and space keyboard doesn't work anymore !

The problem is the MacBook Pro's chassis: It simply isn't big enough to properly cool the CPU. Do to its overheating. The MacBook Pro's i9 "can't even maintain the base clock speed." For those wondering, the base speed is 2.9 GHz. It is a very clear engineer problem for me !!!!

My old laptop model I've user for almost 10 years and I never had to format before. I never reseted the SMC on my previous model. I didn't even know that option exists with my old devices. I tested Cinebanch 5 on my old Macbook pro 2012 that I gave to me nephew and it is faster !!!!!!

After almost 15 years using Apple's devices I'd say I'm leaving Apple forever ! It is really frustrating and I can completely understand your comments. The true is: ...."APPLE HAS DIED WITH STEVE JOBS"

Similar issue with 2019 MB Pro 15 32gm ram i9 2.4 with Vega 20. Frequent kernel attacks and the machine runs very hot even when idle. Reset pram and smc but problems persist. Also not impressed with the performance running photoshop. Doesn’t feel as good as my 2013 Mac Pro trashcan.

Well, guess what. I have the same computer and it is OVERHEATING. It starts up, nothing running - fan starts going, heat is to the point that it literally burns to touch above the touch bar....and then, as I get on with Apple Support Chat, it emergency powers down. One more attempt, about 5 min in - powers down.

On flat surface

Activity log - nothing hogging CPU.

It is one day old.

I am typing this from my 2013 MacBook Pro. Yeah, it is plenty slow and probably can't handle an OS upgrade, but hey, I am not sweating to death, burning my fingers and such...

I need to meditate on how to be kind and patient in this situation, but It will be a test....

A computer that gets hot enough to emergency power-down has an indisputable Hardware problem.

If you bought DIRECT from Apple you have 14 days in the same county as purchased (except the Far East) to return it for refund or replacement within 14 days of receipt. In the US, you can use any available Apple-owned outlet, such as a nearby Apple Store.

Other resellers policies may vary.

The main issue is that u ask for support of APPLE, they claim that the computer is fully normal, and they don't want to change computer or refund the payment ... What I have to do ..

I also have this problem. I use MS Word and it became hotter and hotter until it is unbearable to type.

Yes, they don't have to solution for that issue, just to claim that is all normal

Also thats is not a normal device if it had 1000% kernel_task system failure...

The apple all things say it normal!!!

I have do all this... apple is looking for solutions to a problematic product. and knows very well that its products are problematic.

Hi i paid 4000 euros and must be working perfect thats the point i know all this fancontrol smc format nvram all... i have macbook pro 2011 and working better? ridiculous.

This worked for me. (2019 19MBP 16GB)

thanks for the suggestion, didn’t work for me.

Great suggestion, tried this and my 2019 1TB 32Gb RAM Mbp keybaord sufrace is still 109F. Do you think the i9 chip might be a factor at all?

I tried installing windows 10 via bootcamp and it is not overheating anymore 😂