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Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro (mashable.com)

Posted by msmash on from the nope,-no-sir dept.

Consumer Reports took many by surprise last week -- certainly Apple -- when it said it doesn't recommend the company's new MacBook Pro models. The American magazine, which has garnered credibility over 80 years of its existence, said battery life on Apple's new laptops was all over the place -- hitting 19 hours in a test, but less than four hours in another. Last week, Apple's VP of Marketing, Phil Schiller insisted that Consumer Reports' findings didn't match the company's field data, and that Apple was working with Consumer Reports to understand its review. Now Consumer Reports has responded: The nonprofit organization is standing by its initial verdict in which it did not give the MacBook Pro (2016) its "recommended" rating. The organization has now said it doesn't think re-running the tests will change anything. "In this case, we don't believe re-running the tests are warranted for several reasons. First, as we point out in our original article, experiencing very high battery life on MacBooks is not unusual for us -- in fact we had a model in our comparative tests that got 19 hours," it said. "Second, we confirmed our brightness with three different meters, so we feel confident in our findings using this equipment. Finally, we monitor our tests very closely. There is an entry logged every minute, so we know from these entries that the app worked correctly," it added.

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  1. Re:Not courageous enough? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    God fucking damn, I hate Apple. It all started in 2nd grade when I was forced to Apple II garbage in elementary school. Obsolete pieces of shit with no sprites and a god-awful bleep-bloop-beep speaker. Fucking disgusting. Since then, every Apple user I've ever met has been a stupid motherfucker that wouldn't know an IC from a potato chip and totally brainwashed by the cult of Apple. Fuck any company that solders ram modules onto the motherboard. I even hate Wozniak because he didn't have the basic human decency to tell Steve Jobs to go fuck himself and go elsewhere.