> Now, if you spring for the base model you get a worse battery Except you don't get a worse battery, that's the crazy part. The base/cheaper model gets the be

> Now, if you spring for the base model you get a worse battery Except you don't get a worse battery, that's the crazy part. The base/cheaper model gets the better battery than the expensive model. The lower-end 13-inch base MacBook Pro gets a 54.5w/hr battery, and only drives one screen. The higher-end 13-inch touchbar MacBook Pro only gets a 49.2w/hr battery, and has to drive two screens. - https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ Presumably the TouchBar takes up enough space that they had to reduce the battery size to compensate. So, not only do you have a touch bar you (probably) don't want, wasting battery life you'd rather keep, you also have smaller total battery capacity too. The lineup goes out of it's way to double-punish the more expensive product.