You made a statement saying that BTO turnaround time is garbage and I was simply sharing my experience. Clearly BTO exchanges can either be good or in your case, very very bad. It sucks that it took that long to get your stuff back. If that happened to me, I’d be pissed.
My statement was: "Replacements outside US and for BTO models take more time tho"
I’ve had this happen with other orders so I know the pain. It really sucks.
Alot of bugs should be fixed before shipping from every manufacturer out there. Dell, Lenovo when it comes to laptops, Sony and LG for TVs and so on. Yet everyone is supplying software updates. You'd think NASA would test their multi-million dollar products before shooting them into space or landing on Mars. Yet they're doing software updates to fix things, in places they can't even go to.
So, audio-dropouts that people fix with disabling Wi-Fi and automatic time adjustment that has been going on since T2 launch is fine by your accounts?
How do you know what the source is for these issues? Not everyone has these issues it could be caused by any number of things. I find it odd that people always assume T2 is to blame, only because kernel panics are reported this way now. It's fairly easy to write some code that can cause a kernel panic and the report will show T2 even though it has nothing to do with it. Just look at your V20 flicker example which is caused by 3rd party software such as Chrome. Don't run Chrome and it's fixed. At some point Apple and/or Google will fix this, but until then it's not clear who's to blame.
Again, they (Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, ...) have not fixed alot of things in their software. This necessarily has nothing to do with T2. I get an occasional kernel panic on a MBP as well when I have Word or Excel open when putting it to sleep for a longer period of time, say over the weekend. When quitting Word/Excel before putting it to sleep, it's fine. Software bugs exist in every software out there and are usually fixed when they can be replicated. Software these days is more complex than in the 80s and even back then we had software updates. Just not via internet, but delivered on tapes or floppy discs.
That's not even possible. You can start the same applications, but the underlying system will be different. T2 aside, there's still different hardware in the newer MBPs in comparison to older ones which in turn requires different kexts to be loaded and may cause different behaviour. Might be as easy as rebuilding the kext cache, might be an issue with an application and the loaded kext or something different entirely. In a perfect world things would be... well, perfect. But it happens. If it would be an hardware issue causing it, it would show up on every unit sold. Heat related issue on T2 would have far more serious issues, as we've seen in the past with GPUs. Again, if it's so clear what the issue is, it would be easily fixed.
How many have you tried? I'm not using Logic Pro, but I've yet to work on a unit that has audio issues. Could it be a Logic bug? I have quite a few students using MBPs and have yet to hear complains about these issues. So this is not a "every unit has it" situation. Of course people on forums will gather and complain, while the majority of users are happy. Apple will deliver a fix as soon as they can, if it's their fault. Maybe it's caused by 3rd party software, then this party will update the software causing it. And even if it would turn out to be a non-fixable problem, Apple will issue a repair/replacement program.They're advertising these computers as "logic pro machines" yet they often cannot do that... what am i supposed to do, swaps till i find one that works?