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Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by jaxondu on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:27AM (#13221247)
> Fix the battery issue.

I don't think there is any hardware/software issues for the poor battery performance in latest MacBook Pro. The TouchBar uses AppleWatch CPU under the hood, and anything with a screen will suck up battery rather badly. They might be able to squeeze some more juice by software update. Its likely noticeable improvement will come with the refresh next year. The one thing Apple needs to do is the price. Many are pissed that they pay so much premium but get worst battery performance than last year model.

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Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by bryanlarsen on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:47AM (#13221474)
The parent article has the first good explanation I've seen for the battery issues in the new MacBook Pro. Apparently they wanted to use a fancy non-square battery but it failed some tests so they reverted to a much smaller square battery at the last minute, thus the significant drop in capacity.
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