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I'm not sure, then, why the lack of scrutiny in previous years is valid criticism; nobody shines a lamp in her doctor's eyes when she gives her a clean bill of

I'm not sure, then, why the lack of scrutiny in previous years is valid criticism; nobody shines a lamp in her doctor's eyes when she gives her a clean bill of health. Of course an unusual review will invite unusual scrutiny. I just wish CR had been more open with the exact methodology from the start. What other settings do they activate that vary from a normal user's? They want us to take their word that their method sufficiently emulates light to moderate usage, but my own experience has been vastly different from that review.

slantyyz 10y ago
Put yourself in CR's shoes. You can't do every test of every laptop using the popular sites, because content payloads on various sites change over time. You won't get apples to apples comparison tests. The easiest way to do a repeatable browser test is to turn caching off on the browsers and hit a few web pages that never change and that you control on your own server. By repeating that test over and over again, it simulates hitting new sites even though you're hitting the same pages. If I was in the business of doing laptop reviews, that's how I'd do it. -- edit: This blog entry by Marco Arment on the topic is worth reading: https://marco.org/2017/01/10/cr-mbp-battery-update https://marco.org/2017/01/10/cr-mbp-battery-update