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Battery is a pure smoke screen. They had no qualms cutting battery life to make it that little bit thinner and put in a watch with horizontal striped OLED displ

Battery is a pure smoke screen. They had no qualms cutting battery life to make it that little bit thinner and put in a watch with horizontal striped OLED display.

grzm 10y ago
"They had no qualms cutting battery life" I haven't seen where Apple cut battery life in the MacBook Pro. Here's what's reported now (granted, it's from Apple's website): 15" MacBook Pro 2015 - Up to 9 hours wireless web http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/ http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/ 2016 - Up to 10 hours wireless web http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ If there are other references out there (particularly if they're independent of Apple), please share! Or perhaps you're referring to something besides last week's MacBook Pro updates?
- givinguflac 10y ago
  Yep, battery life is improved but hey don't let that get in the way of Apple hate lol.
rayiner 10y ago
It sucks they didn't use the opportunity to make battery life better, but at least on the 13" non-touchbar it seems like they didn't make it worse: http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/macbook-pro-13-inch http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/macbook-pro-13-inch. 12 hours is the same as the 2015 13" rMBP on that test.
- coldtea 10y ago
  And 12 hours are bad how?
  - rayiner 10y ago
    It's not bad, but that's a lightly loaded test. Probably won't get through a 10 hour workday with real use. If Apple had maintained the old battery capacity, it would probably get 15-16 of light use.
coldtea 10y ago
How does that make it a "smoke screen"? Apple wants both thinner laptops AND good battery life, and they are not going to compromise on either. So until the LP memory they need is out, they are NOT going the machine thicker (not even "as thick as the old model") to compensate just so they can put 32GB which few of their users are gonna buy anyway.

Battery is a pure smoke screen. They had no qualms cutting battery life to make it that little bit thinner and put in a watch with horizontal striped OLED display.

grzm 10y ago

"They had no qualms cutting battery life" I haven't seen where Apple cut battery life in the MacBook Pro. Here's what's reported now (granted, it's from Apple's website): 15" MacBook Pro 2015 - Up to 9 hours wireless web http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/ http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/ 2016 - Up to 10 hours wireless web http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ If there are other references out there (particularly if they're independent of Apple), please share! Or perhaps you're referring to something besides last week's MacBook Pro updates?

givinguflac 10y ago
Yep, battery life is improved but hey don't let that get in the way of Apple hate lol.

rayiner 10y ago

It sucks they didn't use the opportunity to make battery life better, but at least on the 13" non-touchbar it seems like they didn't make it worse: http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/macbook-pro-13-inch http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/macbook-pro-13-inch. 12 hours is the same as the 2015 13" rMBP on that test.

coldtea 10y ago
And 12 hours are bad how?
- rayiner 10y ago
  It's not bad, but that's a lightly loaded test. Probably won't get through a 10 hour workday with real use. If Apple had maintained the old battery capacity, it would probably get 15-16 of light use.

coldtea 10y ago

How does that make it a "smoke screen"? Apple wants both thinner laptops AND good battery life, and they are not going to compromise on either. So until the LP memory they need is out, they are NOT going the machine thicker (not even "as thick as the old model") to compensate just so they can put 32GB which few of their users are gonna buy anyway.