Tag: macbook pro

  • Throttling Due to Thunderbolt Left Proximity Sensor

    Michael Tsai. State C shows that simply having stuff plugged in to TB ports raises their temperature significantly. Both the hub (mouse and keyboard ONLY) and HDMI adapter individually raise the temperature about 10 degrees, and 15 degrees together. Note that high temperature on the right side appears to be ignored by the OS. Plugging…

  • How to Restart the Touch Bar

    Michael Tsai: The Terminal commands are: sudo pkill TouchBarServersudo killall ControlStrip Useful commands. I killed TouchBarServer and ControlStrip via Activity Monitor. I had issues when I first used my MacBook Pro. Three times in the past five months, though they seem to have disappeared after a recent macOS update.