Kcatthedog
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They failed to get Consumer Report's recommendation due to very poor battery life performance of only a few hours. The crown is definetly slipping.
Plug it in... do you use your laptops battery for 12 hours during a session? No one does! I'm not backing Apple's position here, just putting things into perspective.... just plug it in unless you're an environmental sampling engineer, but even then any laptop will give you minimal time for any serious work using it's battery.They failed to get Consumer Report's recommendation due to very poor battery life performance of only a few hours. The crown is definetly slipping.
But I'm sure you plug it in while doing serious work right?Obviously you can plug it in but I don't think that is the point.
The report that I read indicated that not only does the battery performance vary significantly in all three tested brand new machines from only a few hours to 10-14 or so but it was so inconsistent that they decided to report the minimum so as not to mislead consumers.
The CR perspective is always comparative explicitly or implicitly, to like devices , so the new MPB battery performance is atypical for a mac and against its competitors.
My 2012 mbp i7 with upgraded ram and 2 ssd's (I installed myself) is bullet proof, guess I will be hanging on to it for a while
Are you field recording on your MB that there isn't a power source? Even then there's D.C. Converters for autos.People buy laptops for mobility and these are brand new units. If the first charge is 12-14 hours and the 2nd is 4 hours, a drop of that magnitude has nothing to do with performance and everything to do with poor design and or execution.
As long as the consumer knows then they can take an informed decision, but it seems like apple largely missed an opportunity to significantly improve that actual performance of the new mbp with more ram and faster more powerful cpu.
These aren't significantly better than my 4 year old mbp.
No one is arguing that the laptop can be plugged in.Are you field recording on your MB that there isn't a power source? Even then there's D.C. Converters for autos.
Your going to have to charge it eventually whether it's an hour earlier or not.
All battery life specs are subjective to what your doing... if your running a DAW you're better off just plugging in!
You're digging pretty hard to get there and defend a flawed design. You're not really Tim Cook, are you?Are you field recording on your MB that there isn't a power source? Even then there's D.C. Converters for autos.
Your going to have to charge it eventually whether it's an hour earlier or not.
All battery life specs are subjective to what your doing... if your running a DAW you're better off just plugging in!
Not all that surprising. A friend worked for a local home appliance retailer. When a shipment of new water heaters came it, his employer had him put new warranty stickers on them. They were all the same water heater, but the price changed with the length of the warranty....Interestingly enough, I had two noise control jobs I did a few years back, one in a battery plant and one in an outdoor motor plant. In both cases, the foreman's laughed because at the motor plant he said all the old timers always bicker on who has the better motor, Johnson or Evinrude? He showed me where they were manufacturing the exact same motors, sending them to two parts of his plant, painting them different colors with different decals, and sending them off to be put on boats for guys to sit around and boast on which was better. Same with the batteries. The manufacturer was making them for several different manufacturers and shipping them off with different packaging, yet they were the same battery. You can believe me or not, I saw it. Again, YMMV.
Jed
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I know Kcatt. That's why I said, I was loaded on coffee. One man's facts are another's opinion. I think my irritation carried over from another post on here a few weeks ago which was relentless. No harm, no foul, and I hold your advice and opinions in high regard.No probs dude not bashing just stating facts. I am honestly disappointed in the new mbp and was expecting a good performance jump that's all. It a very good laptop just not much different than the older ones that's all. I get that the battery is not the end of the world but I think the concerns that peeps have raised about the quality shift at apple with the trashcan ( MAtt H here has had 3 ?) and now this battery problem. Apples were pretty bullet proof in the past so I just think the crown has slipped a little
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