Battery MacBook Pro 2016, the test of Consumer Reports must be redone: it’s the fault of a bug in Safari – International Business Times Italia

The test of the MacBook Pro battery 2016 should be redone. Apple has release a bug of the Safari browser, that is related to the manner in which it is carried out this test, is the cause of the lack of autonomy reported by Consumer Reports. The latter has accepted the opinion of the company from Cupertino, and after some preliminary evaluations, it found that the new results were "consistently high", waiting to redo the test completely.

First, how has the testing of Consumer Reports? The site tries to be as neutral as possible with respect to what use will be made by the user, whether the latter is a developer or an avid user of the social network; and then, continuously updates the ten web pages that are stored on the servers of Consumer Reports, until the battery discharges completely.

in order To avoid that some things hardware and software (such as the adjustment of screen brightness) can be adopted to safeguard the independence, are disabled auxiliary features such as those previously mentioned and the browser caching. This last feature allows to speed up the navigation: the browser saves on the hard disk "pieces" of the most visited websites, so that the next access can be carried out more quickly, reducing waiting times. the With this function disabled, instead, the browser loads each time the web page from the server on which it is stored, who then weighs the most: doing so, on the battery of a laptop computer, a rating, according to Consumer Reports, the most consistent on his autonomy.

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This situation is the one that has "triggered" the bug in Safari: when the caching is disabled, "a bug’s intermittent, and of which we were not aware of continues to load the icons, which has led to negative results in their laboratory", he explained Apple referring to Consumer Reports.

"In fact, when we re-enabled the caching functionality as part of the research that we conducted after we published our first results, the three MacBook that we tested initially have shown constantly high" did you know Consumer Reports, which will soon update the status of the test on the most recent laptop of the Apple.

The ratings of Consumer Reports are taken into consideration by the users. The fact that the various models of the MacBook Pro 2016, from the base without the Touch Bar until the higher-end, they were the first generation of Apple laptops to not be "recommended" for their performance was definitely a blow. "Although these computers have behaved well in the test for the screen quality, performance, and other factors, we noticed that the runtime is too variable in these models tested to the point that we can advise them to consumers," reads the site.

The test of Consumer Reports, however, is not the only issue that was discussed on the MacBook Pro 2016. Apple has had to take account, for example, with an estimate of the remaining battery lacked. The response from Cupertino was to disable this option with an update until the problem is corrected.

Also, other users (as well as sites like The Verge and Business Insider, during their review) that do not disable the caching functionality of the browser have reported a lack of autonomy in their model, a problem, the latter, which does not seem related to the bug of Safari that is specified by Apple, and still don’t know the exact solution. Without forgetting the “oddities” of the GPU, which in some models generate effects of “flickering” or “freezing”.