Apple MacBook Pro bogus battery claims by Consumer Reports
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None the less, it was a problem that Apple had to fix and CR wasn’t the only person reporting issue.
Did Apple pull a VW with this new Safari version?
We may see.
Have you ever,ever,ever posted anything on FR connected to elections,courts,societal trends?
No,I didn't think so.
That's the sort of slimy biased language I expect from the lying leftists in Big Media.
So, according to the story, CR made two mistakes:
1)They used the default browser supplied by Apple
and
2) They found a bug in Apple’s software.
Apple’s apologist goes a bit over the top with this defense.
Glad to see you posting. Hope this finds you felling better than the other night.
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For those who don’t know...Intel’s power management is very complex and has evolved over the years.
It is now much simpler to code for but its probably some legacy software that wasn’t quite right with the latest hardware.
Now objectively, Apple did goof on the latest Macbook Pro.
I was all set to buy one and when I saw the result, I picked up a new 2015 instead.
“It can also accomplish good things, such as when an auto manufacturer has to go back and modify a faulty suspension system that might cause a rollover during a rapid maneuver to avoid an accident.”
As an aside, not exactly a ‘settled’ notion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Motor_Corp._v._Consumers_Union_of_the_U.S.,_Inc.
It can also accomplish good things, such as when an auto manufacturer has to go back and modify a faulty suspension system that might cause a rollover during a rapid maneuver to avoid an accident. “
Such as Piddle screaming at a driver “if you can’t roll it, I will find someone who can!” paraphrased.
CR isn’t worth the paper it is printed on or the electrons that give their lives for the digital one.
Welcome back Swordmaker -— I’m glad to see you have as much energy (and patience) as before. Too bad the surgeons couldn’t have also excised the bubble-headed Apple-haters who plague FR while they were fixing you.
Good to have you back!
This reminds me of the Pentium floating point bug.
Intel didn’t want to replace the processor because the average joe would only run across it under certain conditions.
Rather than say thanks. Intel fought replacing it until the low roar became a din and they finally decided to replace it “upon request”.
Seems Apple could have just said, hey thanx! Fixed it and be on there merry way....and hire the guy who set up the test as a QA guru.
But there are still too many Mac v. PC fire breathers and it produces crap articles like these - blame the guys who find and report the bugs.
I remember back in the early 80’s CR called the Coleco Adam the “Computer of the Century”. Yeah, right.
Besides erasing any tape media left in the drive when it was turned on, due to the extreme electromagnetic surge on power-up, the power supply for the computer was located in the attached failure-prone printer. So when your printer died or had to be sent off for repairs, no computing.
Also in the late 70’s CR listed as Dangerous and Unacceptable, the front-wheel drive Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon. The reason was that when the test driver swerved the car as hard as he could in one direction and then as hard as he could in the other, and then let go of the steering wheel, the car did not continue in straight line.
WTF??
Apparently the test driver had no idea about driving a front-wheel drive car.
We had a Horizon from 78 to 84. Put a lot of miles on it with no problems.
Of course that may have been because we never swerved the car from side to side as hard as we could and then let go of the steering wheel.