The verdict of the consumers ‘ association in the united states is fallen : the batteries of the MacBook Pro 2016 behaviour is too erratic for it to advise on the purchase.
Consumer Reports is a consumer association, american particularly powerful and respected — in particular because it has funds available to improve every year a laboratory for testing impressive for different products, from the car to the laptop. By doing so, Consumer Reports has a real power on the become a commercial object. And if Apple does not find a way to solve its battery problems on its new MacBook Pro range, the risk of suffering from the decision of the association.
indeed, and this is a first in the history of the MacBook Pro, Consumer Reports was not able to adouber generation 2016. Despite excellent results on the side of the screen or performance, the MacBook Pro 2016 is suffering from a battery that is not bad, but that is perfectly erratic. On his blog, the CR explains that on several tests, the battery of the MacBook is gone from all to nothing. The 13-inch model with Touch Bar and held 16 hours and 12.7 hours, and then 3.75 hours. The model without Touch Bar that we tested in-depth held for 19.5 hours, then for 4.5 hours. The 15-inch model has held for 18.5 hours, then 8 hours.
usually, the variation of the duration of life among the tests carried out by the laboratory on hundreds of computers is 5 %. Here, you can see the battery go from a full day of autonomy within half a business day according to the tests. CR indicates, therefore, that it is impossible for them to make an average, both these figures are far apart : they have therefore decided to use each time the lowest score, which makes the MacBook Pro one of the gear the less autonomous on battery of 2016.
on The side of explanations, Ars Technica has raised some assumptions about these performances sometimes lean : for the first time, the 15-inch MacBook Pro has a dedicated GPU which seems to be extremely consumer of energy when it is active. In addition, Apple has taken advantage of the new Intel, which consume energy differently depending on the use you make of your laptop. This was already the case, surfing the web has never consumed as much as playing a video game, but on this generation, the difference between modes is very noticeable — especially as Apple has reduced the size of its batteries.
Close all your applications that are not used !
therefore, he will have to play with the processes running, close the apps and tabs that are not used and decrease the brightness of the screen up to the threshold of the comfortable to enjoy a battery worthy of the name. During our tests, mainly in office automation advanced, she we had not bothered in the least, but we used the MacBook Pro without having to Touch the Bar, which is the least affected by these concerns. It is, however, increasingly evident that this becomes one of the major problems of this generation of MacBook Pro for a lot of users.
And in 2016, the competition begins to show teeth.
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