Apple has seen how the MacBook Pro with touch bar is not included in the Consumer Reports list it has done a lot of damage this Christmas, period of the year that concentrates the largest number of purchases of electronic devices, to which was added the launch of the long-awaited renewal of the MacBook Pro range, which in the last 4 years, had not received any major aesthetic change. A couple of days ago I told you that Consumer Reports had rerun the battery consumption tests after Apple had found the problem of the disparity of battery life in the tests that this independent body had carried out (or at least that He pretends to be). The problem was with Safari.
Apparently the software update that solves the battery consumption problem is not integrated into the operating system at the moment, only on Macs used by Consumer Reports to retest, as it has been a patch that will be integrated in the next update of macOS Sierra. Something smells bad when Consumer Reports has agreed to test with software that is not publicly available and modify its criteria to add them to the list of recommended devices, since its premise is to analyze the devices as they are available in the market for the public usually.
Consumer Reports claimed when it submitted the final report it would not change your result, even if the tests were repeated and other results were displayed. In order to obtain the new results, Apple has worked hand in hand with Consumer Reports to find out where the fault was, a fault that they have already detected. Apple has released an exclusive patch for Consumer Report in beta, a patch that has fixed the battery performance tests. This update will be released to the public soon in the final version of macOS 10.12.3.
That is, Apple only worries that Consumer Reports will offer the recommendation so necessary for the company again, Rather than focus on troubleshooting and RECOGNIZING an excessive battery drain issue that many users had reported but that Apple, as it was not interested, played down its importance. Surely more than one of you will be with me in that Apple has to change its strategy and start taking the problems reported by users more seriously instead of leaving us aside as if we had nothing to do with the use of its ecosystem.
It is clear that the suffering users are not Consumer Reports, but fortunately this body has managed to get Apple to solve the problem, after the damage in sales that it has caused. Of course, modifying the list of recommendations says very little in favor of this body, which claims to be independent, since Apple will have had to remove the checkbook to make the top managers change their minds, something that leaves the organization in a very bad place.
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It should be clarified that CR does the tests with a test environment that is not close to the real work environment. For example, it disables all types of cache use, to force the test under the worst possible conditions. But it is that this environment is not close to the natural environment of computer use. This is just one example of how tests are not always the last word, nor are they necessarily the absolute truth. That, apart from the fact that this exercise created a "bug" that Apple had to rectify. There are articles on the web that delve into this topic.
Well, I'm about to go back to Windows. I'm a 2011 MacBook Pro user and I don't like the way Apple is doing. He is focusing a lot on making it slimmer and with longer battery life. In a Pro I expect more power, although the battery life is lower and it is more chubby, because normally I will use it plugged into the power. Also, I hope it can be expanded, not having it all soldier. My current MBP is expandable.
If I wanted an ultrabook, that's what they have the MacBook and the Air for, but it seems that the future of the MBP is to pull more towards the Air.
We have also been with the retina screen for several years. They have had time to upgrade to 4k, like the competition, which has already done so. But nothing except the iMac, no 4k screen.
Not only the MacBook Pro, they take a long time to update their entire range of computers. It seems that they have abandoned this section and focus more on phones and tablets.
I will end up buying a DELL XPS 15, 17mm thick and that is still expandable up to 32Gb of memory and the SSD can be changed.
We have to be objective and prudent. What is evident is that this will be the subject of debate in the coming weeks
and the most important thing is that this new version of macOS solves the problem for all those who claimed to have poor autonomy ...
I would not go to windows for this, but it is normal that there are criticisms about this.