I understand the desire by CR, but that isn't actual usage. If they wanted to mimic how most of us use the machine they'd not turn off the caching. While its good that apple fixed the bug, it seems kind of sketchy for CR to do that
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Consumer Reports Retesting MacBook Pro Battery Life After Apple Says Safari Bug to Blame
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i love how some people here defends apple and this macbook, they just can't accept that this macbook is overpriced disappointment
Actually, Consumer Reports did retest with Chrome and found more consistent results.
Absolutely. But the older laptops only degraded at little from the 10 hour battery life. That's why I mention that Pro users expect 8 to 9 based on the different software out there, but to go from an upper bound of 10 hours to 2 to 3 hours is pathetic. Apple is basically making a machine that is only designed to run light weight Apple software (Mail & Safari), outside of that, battery will be pathetic. Does anyone here think Email & Safari are the only things Pro users use?
Consumer Reports just publish what it got when testing. It's as simple as that.
Here is the setting they are talking about. Since they are simulating a user going to many different websites its debatable wether disabling the cache would make a more realistic test. For example if they only have a few websites on the list then disabling it would simulate the user going to other sites since all the sites are loaded fresh every time. On the other hand, they could have made a list of the average users common website access and then although visiting different pages at least images and assets would be cached. I think the main question is what is this icon bug about? Does it cause 100% CPU and battery drain? Need more detail on that to know.
They set all the tested machines browsers the same. Seems the Pro failed significantly in battery life. What does this mean, any software application on the Pro that is CPU intensive will drain the battery rather quickly compared to other like systems. Pro systems are called Pro because users have applications that have very CPU battery drawing requirements. Why would one purchase an Apple Pro system to do normal web surfing? Apple needs to rethink what a Pro users needs are.
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So, Apple was right. That is the bottom line. Man, this place has become negative beyond belief.
My MBP 13 gives me up to 3 hours of casual browsing and the odd youtube video with medium brightness. I guess I'm testing it wrong?
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Why? They tested it the same way they test every other laptop; this is not a mystery.
It would have been far less responsible to NOT publish the results they got.
It's not a ploy if Apple was right.
But you don't think CR was testing it wrong? Do you disable all browser caching? Does anyone? This really is another CR fail. What's the point of testing battery life if your results are irrlelcant to how people use their computers?
I betcha I could test a car and I've the engine "a tougher workout" by driving on the highway in second gear. Not sure why anyone should conclude that the engine's faulty.
Agreed. They'd simply have interns posting comments in forums until the batteries died.
They *DID* test with Chrome. Did you look at the actual report?
No, it is not simple as that. That's why you have a head on your shoulders. The results were suspicious to say the least and if they followed scientific method they would not have published those results.
I've had my 13" touch bar MBP a month now and I'm consistently getting 8-10 hours usage no problem. I use chrome as my browser.
Guess this shows what Apple really thinks of their "pro" customers.
For many people, the new machine is just what they want. Why not praise that which you are happy with? Just because you don't like the new machine, that doesn't mean Apple did something wrong. I see nothing to bash Apple over on this issue. If anything, Consumer Reports should be taken to task for their sloppy work and reporting methods.
No, I was just stating my opinion in a developing conversation rather than making a pointless reply/quote such as you.Well, if someone's looking for upvotes...
So the battery lasts the rated time as long as you keep reloading the same web content over and over again.
Well worth the read - notable effort by a pro to gauge battery for 15 MBPT and 13 MBPFnc. Bad news re: battery and this true Mac loyalist's overall impression. (Click his thoughts on the touchbar/airPods - well reasoned. ) Link:
http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/i-returned-my-2016-macbook-pro-touch-bar
Likely CR hit a Safari bug, but still does not excuse Apple's battery and overall MBPT design decisions (100% back Geerling's conclusions which is a real "imho".)
http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/i-returned-my-2016-macbook-pro-touch-bar
Likely CR hit a Safari bug, but still does not excuse Apple's battery and overall MBPT design decisions (100% back Geerling's conclusions which is a real "imho".)