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Days after Consumer Reports (CR) concluded that Apple's latest MacBook Pros have battery life issues, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller posted on his Twitter that the company is working with the American publication to understand its battery tests.
Schiller claims that CR's results do not match Apple's extensive lab tests or field data. Apple claims that its 13 and 15-inch models offer up to 10 hours of battery life, but CR's results show otherwise. For example, the 13-inch model without Touch Bar ran for 19.5 hours in one trial and 3.75 hours in another. The 15-inch model with Touch Bar clocked 18.5 hours in one trial and 8 hours in another.
While the inconsistencies in battery performance may provide enough justification for CR to withhold a recommendation, one must not forget that the variability among the test results indicate that something must have gone wrong somewhere and this is the reason why Apple is so eager to find out.
In any case, we didn't find the battery performance to be a tad underwhelming, though usable.
Source: @pschiller via 9to5Mac
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