Huh? Non-touchbar version (w/ bigger battery & lower power processor) has the same 10h battery life?

[Hal~9000]

Touchbar version:

• 49.2 watt hour battery
• 28 W processor

Non-touchbar version:

• 54.5 watt hour battery
• 15 W processor

While both have the same screen which is the biggest power draw... wouldn't the differences listed above count for some sort of battery life difference between the two models?

 

[AustinIllini]

Battery life is kind of nebulous. If the NonTB version gets 10.3 hours and the TB version gets 9.7 hours, you really don't have to specify a difference.

 

[Abaganov]

it doesn't make sense at all.
maybe apple didn't want the lower end model to have better battery life so they placed slightly less battery inside the machine?

 

[blackberrycubed]

non touch will get 16+ battery life.... just wait and watch !

 

[Hal~9000]

it doesn't make sense at all.
maybe apple didn't want the lower end model to have better battery life so they placed slightly less battery inside the machine?

Since Apple itself is showing the lower end model as having a larger battery on their own specs page for the MacBook Pro, I highly doubt they would do what you are implying since battery size is easily verified via a teardown

 

[nonm]

They keep it the same so people get the more expensive one