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Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro (mashable.com)
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.
What does everyone else use? You know those non-cool people?
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Oh FFS...
When my 8 year old macbook died, I needed something quick, and Best Buy was my option. I was pissed at apple for general product shittiniess over the past few years, and especially pissed because what killed my macbook was it turning on and roasting itself in my backpack (over temp shutdown? We don't need that... we're Apple). So I bought an HP laptop with some trepidation, as the last HP laptop I bought 12 years ago was an utter piece of shit that failed after 4 months and they refused to warranty. (2 years later a class action suit forced them to fix it... woo hoo! 2 year old computer!)
So this fucking thing from the get go has a dodgy HDMI output... flickering and shutting down whenever you run 3d on an external monitor. Fine. I didn't buy it to use with a monitor. So 4 months later, the fucking thing won't accept power from the supply while running... so the only way to use it is to charge it up, run it till it dies, and charge it up again. I am going to call about it today, and fully expect to get dicked around just like last time.
As pissed as I am at apple, something that lasts 8 years before shitting the bed... pretty good in comparison to 4 months.
Moral of the story? Fuck, I don't know.