[Swordmaker]

Consumers Reports magazine testing protocols used on laptops is flawed in that in their attempts to make the playing surface fair, as if all computers were Windows PCs and operated the same, requires the turning off of particular Operating System functions which, on a UNIX system are intended to improve speed, efficiency, and battery life. They then reported the MacBook Pro as being deficient in those areas, after those functions were turned off. What do they think would happen when they did that? Although such adjustments to the operating system are not generally user configurable, Consumers Reports did it anyway in the interest of "fairness" in comparing laptop computers, as if somehow users were better off using a computer not as the manufacturer intended it to be used, but with part of the OS disabled. — PING!

Thanks to dayglored for the heads up.

Apple MacBook Pro and the Consumers Reports' Review
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[Irish Eyes]

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[dayglored]

I can't wait until Consumer Reports tests a variety of cars, and does their testing with the following "fairness" conditions:

1. Since some cars don't have turbochargers, we disabled the turbochargers on those cars that had them.
2. Since some engines only have 4 cylinders, we disabled the "extra" cylinders on the 6- and 8-cylinder engines.
3. Since some cars' gas tanks only hold 12 gallons, we only put 12 gallons of gas in the 14-, 16-, and 18-gallon tanks of other cars.

Results:

1. We determined that cars with turbochargers don't go any faster than cars without turbochargers.
2. We determined that cars with 6-cyl and 8-cyl engines don't go faster than cars with 4 cylinders, and run rougher as well.
3. We determined that cars with larger gas tanks don't get any farther range in miles than cars with smaller gas tanks.

My, my, these guys at Consumer Reports are GENIUSES! Who else would have discovered such important results?!?

Bless their little hearts.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Thanks for your invaluable commentary, SM. So good to see your screen name . . .