Consumer Reports finally recommends the Apple Macbook Pro
You will recall sometimes ago
when Consumer Reports failed to recommend the new Apple Macbook Pro over issues
that had to do with battery performance. Their decision was announced after a
rigorous analysis of the New Macbook Pro in December that revealed that the
battery was performing below expectation.
The report even showed a
particular piece with battery durability ranging 3.75 hours to 16 hours
The problem was reported to
be as a result of a bug in Safari which has now been fixed. According to Apple,
Consumer Reports’ test was not conventional as the Cache of the Safari was
turned off resulting in an experiment that was not simulating a real-life
usage.
Now that Apple has got the
batteries fixed, the result of the new Consumer Reports’ experiment on the
Gadget has shown that the battery problem no longer exists.
In case you care to know what
the new Macbook Pro battery now look like; it is estimated to be an incredible
17.25 hours, 18.75 and 15.75 hours for the 15-inch Pro, 13-inch Pro without a
touch bar and 13-inch Pro with a touch bar respectively.
"With the updated
software, the three MacBook Pros in our labs all performed well, with one model
running 18.75 hours on a charge," says the organization in a blog post on
Thursday.
Mashable has reported that CR
has also gone further to declare the device OK for consumers, saying all three
of Apple's new MacBook Pros fall "well within the recommended range in
Consumer Reports ratings."
CR's original findings caused
a lot of attention as they followed a number of user reports that the battery
life on the new MacBook Pros is far below Apple's promised 10 hours. These
prompted Apple to remove the "time remaining" estimate from the
battery drop down menu in the menu bar.
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Consumer Reports finally recommends the Apple Macbook Pro
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