Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
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Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
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#2> For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13- inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours.
What could possibly the reason for such drastic variations in the same laptop, over a short period of time, when the testing conditions remain consistent?
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#3> For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13- inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours.
How could this happen? Did each test follow the same process?
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#4> For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13- inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours. What could possibly the reason for such drastic…
Background processes and vastly different webpages visited. That's all I can come up with.
Frankly, I'm not sure either is a valid excuse for such a huge deviation.
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#5The URL should be changed to http://www.consumerreports.org/laptops/macbook-pros-fail-to-..., since this only reports on that.
Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#6> For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13- inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours. What could possibly the reason for such drastic…
When they say: "ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third" they don't mean that each of the three trials consists of the same load.
The mechanism sounds highly random too: "Consumer Reports tests battery life using a real-world test: They turn on the laptop's screen and surf webpages using Chrome. It's not a test based on benchmarking software or watching video that wouldn't require internet access, and the publication said that even recent software updates did not help the problem."
Such tests should be repeatable, with same webpages, durations of visit, etc to have any meaning (and to be able to actually indicate issues with different battery life, and not merely different load).
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#7Because you can't cheat people forever.
Re: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
#8> For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13- inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours. What could possibly the reason for such drastic…
Background processes and vastly different webpages visited. That's all I can come up with. Frankly, I'm not sure either is a valid excuse for such a huge deviation.
If they have some automated setup for doing this web browsing (maybe a selenium that visits websites for 10 hours?)
They should be consistent after a restart and I bet they charge them to full before conducting the next test.
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#9Good thing they removed the battery time remaining indicator. People will never notice. /s
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#10> For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13- inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours. What could possibly the reason for such drastic…
When they say: "ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third" they don't mean that each of the three trials consists of the same load. The mechanism sounds highly random too: "Consumer Reports tests battery life using a real-world test: They turn on the laptop's screen and surf webpages using Chrome. It's not a test based on benchmarking software or watching video t…
Doesn't seem fair to base a test on using Chrome when Apple bundles a more power efficient browser with the OS.