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>3. I wasn’t the ONLY ONE who encountered this. You should check out the posts in MacRumors and this long thread in Reddit.

This issue is quite well known for those who followed the Apple M1 rollout closely. My suspicious is that

1. It is the same USB / Thunderbolt Charging issue again as with previous Intel Mac. Where basically the USB-C somehow fried the CPU. ( Louis Rossmann has tons of video on it )

2. The CPU / System is simply not designed for these type of usage. Especially with zero cooling. ( Sometimes, I would even leave the machine switched on for overnight rendering ) And it could also be other component that overheat.

Apple needs to sell an official Time Capsule and Make Encrypted Backup to iCloud as option for Offline Backup.

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> The CPU / System is simply not designed for these type of usage. Especially with zero cooling.

While I agree that consumer hardware in general and laptops in particular aren't designed for this usage, internal overheating should never be the cause for catastrophic failure.

A system should be designed to throttle down or shut down before risking permanent damage. Should this be a heat related problem, I'd consider it a design flaw.

Degraded performance is acceptable, permanent damage to non-replaceable internal hardware isn't.

> Apple needs to sell an official Time Capsule and Make Encrypted Backup to iCloud as option for Offline Backup.

Not going to happen. Since they disbanded the router team 3 years ago, there's zero chance of a Time Capsule product coming back anytime soon.

They want customers to use iCloud and I think that's the better option for most users. People like the person in this blog are professionals and should use professional backup solutions (whether offline or online).

> I'd consider it a design flaw.

Agree, except Apple dont think like that anymore.

> The CPU / System is simply not designed for these type of usage.

Maybe they shouldn’t advertise it as such then?

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a $2400 machine to be left on overnight without worrying about it being fried in the morning.

You have to understand the Apple fanboy mindset. If it breaks, it's your fault. Soldered SSD? Do backups you dummy! Over heating? Just use it for email and browsing. Dead pixels? Get better glasses. No ESC key? Buy an external keyboard. Keys not working? Don't push them so hard, they're butterflies!

>Maybe they shouldn’t advertise it as such then?

I really dont think they did. It should be MacBook Pro with proper cooling. And personally I dont think overnight rendering, that is 100% CPU usage for 8+ hours should even be done on a laptop with no cooling fans.

The $2400 price tag was because of Apple's ridiculous memory and Storage upgrade cost.

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