By: Dan Uff, Senior Editor On June 28th, customers who pre-ordered the Amazon Echo Show had received the device. While some set up the device immediately, I waited 1-2 days so I could take my time and make positive and negative notes about the set-up and the device itself. On Monday evening, I finally set […]
“Consumer Reports has responded to our comment piece on its surprising battery test results for the 2016 MacBook Pro, stating that it stands by its findings,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac. “I observed that the high-end numbers seemed hard to believe, hitting almost double the battery-life claimed by Apple, and I wondered whether some flaw in […]
On Friday, the world’s leading consumer magazine, Consumer Reports, had put out a “No Buy” report on Apple’s new MacBook Pro due to battery issues. Hours later, Apple’s Senior Vice President, Phil Schiller, issued a Tweet that said: The Consumer Reports test has come under scrutiny since publication of the non-recommendation. The tests were conducted by opening a […]
“Apple launched a new series of MacBook Pro laptops this fall, and Consumer Reports’ labs have just finished evaluating them. The laptops did very well in measures of display quality and performance, but in terms of battery life, we found that the models varied dramatically from one trial to another,” Jerry Beilinson writes for Consumer […]
