In a shocking series of tests just before Christmas, Consumer Reports put the new MacBook Pro through its paces and came to the conclusion that battery life was so poor and so variable that it was the first MacBook Pro it could not recommend.
Apple was rather taken aback by the result and, after further investigation, blamed a hidden setting activated by Consumer Reports. This in itself exposed a bug in Safari. With this patched, the tests were re-run and the MacBook Pro is now the proud recipient of Consumer Reports’ coveted ‘recommended’ award.
Having applied the patch supplied by Apple, Consumer Reports found that \u00ab\u00a0the three MacBook Pros in our labs all performed well, with one model running 18.75 hours on a charge\u00a0\u00bb. Apple had been quick to point out that part of the problem was that Consumer Reports had enabled a setting that would not be changed by the average user — it is the Safari bug that this exposed which is the real focus of attention here.
Writing about the re-tests in a blog post, Consumer Reports says :
It goes on to point out that the patch is available to everyone, albeit in beta form at the moment. It can be downloaded from the Apple Beta Software Program , but will roll out to everyone very soon anyway.
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