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NOTE: I posted this thread on the Apple forum. A minute later it has been wiped out. Coincidence? I don’t think so… I noticed this on two of my MacBook pros, 2014 2.6 and 2015 2.8. Both must show certain Cinebench scores - 2.6 about ~640, 2.8 ~680. None of them are even close. 2.6 shows ~550, 2.8 - 540. They are flawless, the paste is new, I even tried liquid metal, and no, they’re too slow in any way, anyhow. But than I installed windows on the first one. And… 660 CB points! Even more than I could expect! And it’s running fine, simply without MacOS. That lead my to a thought - MacOS limits the performance somehow. Why, and what could it be? And here is my guess. Old batteries. 250+ cycles on one, 600+ on the other. Remember the scandal about iPhones secret slowdowns because of old batteries? I bet it’s somewhere close. I now order a new battery and will check it throughly later. But I feel my guess is close to truth. And no matter why - my perfectly functional MacBooks are ~20% SLOWER THAN THEY SHOULD AND CAN (with Windows) BE. I feel it like a fraud, cause the machine TWICE THE PRICE runs just as a base model and even worse. I feel something disgusting here from Apple. Again. Let’s check our machines and compare the scores to what it should be and than look at the cycle count. I think you should discover the same what I did
p.s. My thread didn’t survive a minute :D
Sorry to bust your bubble there is no BatteryGate-2! Or other Gate You do need to be careful you in how you measure things. Jumping between OS’s is not the way you would prove much of anything. Each OS leverages more or less of the systems thermal management system and well as the systems performance. MacOS uses all of the MacBook’s services unlike Windows or Linux so it can appear to have more performance.
