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MacBook Pro buyers freaking out about battery life may want to try this tip

Published Mon, Dec 26, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Washington

CONSUMER Reports has some bad news for anyone who bought a MacBook Pro this holiday season: it's not giving Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops its seal of approval for the first time ever.

According to the Consumer Reports review, there are battery-life issues with the 13-inch MacBook without the new Touch Bar control strip, and the 13- and 15-inch models with the Touch Bar. They all threw up wildly inconsistent battery times in testing. On some trials, the laptops gave out battery life readings that exceeded Apple's own 10-hour estimate. But in other trials, the laptops had less than half of what Apple promises; in one case, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar ran for a paltry 3.45 hours.

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