Consumer Reports Fails to Earn MacBook Pro CredibilityConsumer Reports is making headlines for "not recommending" the new MacBook Pro. And I think that's just exactly what they wanted.
Rene Ritchie has been covering Apple and the personal technology industry for almost a decade. Editorial director for Mobile Nations, analyst for iMore, video and podcast host, you can follow him on Snapchat, Instagram, or Twitter @reneritchie.
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Update: Apple provided me with the following statement on Consumer Reports' test:
"We appreciate the opportunity to work with Consumer Reports over the holidays to understand their battery test results," Apple told iMore. "We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks, Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache. This is not a setting used by customers and does not reflect real-world usage. Their use of this developer setting also triggered an obscure and intermittent bug reloading icons which created i...
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Consumer Reports Fails to Earn MacBook Pro Credibility
