Macbook Pro 2018 overheating, and other strange problems

Same here,

My first time that i bought a mac. I was convinced by friends with Mac, but this is really unpleasant!

The irritating thing is that service of the apple distributer in Israel is so bad that it wouldn't help complaining...

Really disappointing

I second that. gladly I just paid 2200€ which is still a joke for this machine.

Don´t expect any help from anyone in power from appple to help here. won´t happen. and apple will not say anything about all those problems at all. but let´s face it. they took it way to far. poeple are more and more getting ****** all over the internet.

Same problem here. Macbook pro overheats only using CHROME and browsing GMAIL. Battery life y poor.

with a few task CPU es 70 celsius degrees of more... Just having a 10 minutes meeting through google hangouts and it burns

I have been a windows user, This is my first Macbook laptop.;...and honestly Apple is abusing. Mine is a 2,100 dollars. My wife has a Lenovo $800 machine that works better: it doesn't heat like this.... My final conclusion this macbook pro cost doesn't worth

Macbook Book pro has serious issues... totally disappointed

2018 MBP TB 13" /w i7 here, and the battery is empty in 3 hrs if the CPUs are boosted. And anything, really, a breeze, a movie, a bigger network transfer, will surely trigger the boost. It is like a rogue Formula 1, and it does cost 4k, perhaps the most expensive notebook series ever. Any decent manufacturer would do a recall.

Deeply disappointed also to see that Apple is incapable of issuing an OS in keep with the hardware, and fails to meet the longterm legacy of congruent hardware-software development. Apple, wake up, you can do much better then that!

"It's a design problem"

Just because you feel the temperatures aren't acceptable doesn't make something a design problem. Everybody has different tolerances in terms of what they feel is considered to be overheating. Maybe this just isn't the right machine for you. Try a different version of Macbook or try a Dell or Lenovo laptop. I hear they don't have design problems.

That's was exactly my conclusion. my next machine will be Dell o Lenovo. Currently my Lenovo laptop at work heats too much less than MacBookPro. Screen has less resolution but it doesn't burn me and performance is ok.

It is true that's everybody has different tolerances in terms of what they feel as heat or not... But... a machine burning your fingers when you touch the touchbar I don't think is acceptable for anybody... more than 70 or 80 celsius degrees is a serious problem that can have health implications.... Something that can burn you can have legal implications for apple... Unfortunately I don't have time for going deeper with this case, but it is defenitely something unacceptable...

While I won't necessarily discount your concerns I'm not exactly buying your post about your fingers getting burned. To each his own. I was actually being facetious about the Dell and Lenovo having no" design problems". Every model of Lenovo (including the new X1E) has issues and Dell's own forum is filled with complaints on the XPS line. Grass won't be greener. Good luck.

I guess you missed this part of my post before you posted.

" I was actually being facetious about the Dell and Lenovo having no" design problems". Every model of Lenovo (including the new X1E) has issues and Dell's own forum is filled with complaints on the XPS line. "

I'm experiencing the same thing with the MacBook Pro 2018 13 inch. It gets quite hot to the point typing on the keyboard can be an issue. I need to have a fan running next to mine just to keep it cool to touch. Reminds me of the good old days when a fan had to be placed next to my desktop PC to keep things running cool, and this was way before we had fancy cooling components for PC towers.

I would like to know how Apple tests these notebooks in the R&D labs before selling them to the public. Is there some sort of tolerance that Apple allows?

Would the hardware components life be shortened due to this heating issue?

Thank you for your response. No, this was not a typo, my comments were about my "MacBook Pro", I simply asked if any of the community had heard of 2018 MacBook Airs suffering any similar heat issues. I think it is great that your MacBook Pro is suffering no overheating issues, but as 4 pages of commentary here serve as an example that many MacBook Pro users are indeed experiencing issues. And yes, I have checked background utilities/applications as has Apple Support.

"but as 4 pages of commentary here serve as an example that many MacBook Pro users are indeed experiencing issues."

Please post a link as to where this is? I have not heard any reports from people about the 2018 MacBook Pro's overheating. In fact I hear more about how much cooler they are running which is the same experience I have. I frequent 3 different forums and I just haven't seen what you're talking about. Hopefully you'll get your issues resolved.

And? You think I'm not being honest? Why did you feel it necessary to post something so rude towards me? You're having problems. Maybe it's something you're doing wrong? I must be doing something right.

I just got my Macbook pro 13" touch bar i7 16GB ram. Same problem as all the mentioned. i'am very disappointed with these. I cant believe it's apple :/ after all these years og good macbook's now this...

There must be a solution ??

Well i hope it have done the Spotlight indexing - it have been running for 2 days now. where can I see that?

it's really start the fans whenever i use safari or even word. I simply don't get it. the temps on the CPU are around 70+ all the time.

its not crashing or something like that. Its just the fans running all the freaking time.

Hi,

I have bought MBP 2019 13 inch i5 and even though I did nothing (CPU idle ratio is appx %90), keyboard and touchpad get hot. What should be the average temperature for normal usage? I reset SMC and update latest software but it did not solve the issue.

I did not have such problem with my old MBP 2015. I am very disappointed, these products are going backwards rather than going forward. In this way, Apple undermines brand reputation!