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Also the news today reports "Apple Working with Consumer Reports on Macbook Pro Battery Issue" [1] Reading between the lines: "Apple Pressures Consumer Reports to Change its Story" You don't need to "work with" Consumer Reports to fix the issue. Just fix it. Why "work with"? Does Consumer Reports have engineers that will help Apple understand the problem? Is Consumer Reports an isolated incident that just needs some…
What if Safari attracted a heavy WebGL ad in their web browsing test? What if Chrome had an ad blocker in place? What if they used an automation system to drive the test which wired on the discrete gpu? I see a lot of questions an engineer could answer to help Consumer Reports better understand why their test showed such large variances and then they can decide if it is a testing artifact or indicative of a real vari…
Re: MacBook Battery Time Remaining
#61And yet none of these issues seemed to plague CR in the past, when they've reviewed every single MBP release of the last several years (in addition to hundreds of other laptops)...