Apple pushes out 2018 MacBook Pro update to fix throttling issue

So it was a bug after all.

Almost as soon Apple debuted its new MacBook Pro for 2018 — which greatly boosts performance over last year's model and marks the first time an Intel Core i9 machine has been in the lineup — it was plagued with a performance problem.

YouTuber Dave Lee was the first to identify it: When you push the MacBook Pro to the limit, and it gets hot, it's not nearly as fast as Apple claims. Lee tried a processor-intensive task in Adobe Premiere and got way better performance when he put his brand-new Pro in the freezer.