Re:Former Apple Employee: Touch Bar Shouldn't Be Forced on H...
by jorvi on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:47AM
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Not only that, up till 2016 all the 'peripheral' parts (screen, battery, ports etc.) on MacBook Pros had been equal. Wether you sprung for the €1300 or €2200 13" MacBook Pro, externally you'd get the more-or-less the same experience, with the performance delta usually within 15%. The 'gimp'book changed that. Now, if you spring for the base model you get two Thunderbolt ports less, a worse battery, and a ULV instead of a full-blown processor.
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Re:Former Apple Employee: Touch Bar Shouldn't Be Forced on H...
by maxsilver on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:38AM
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> Now, if you spring for the base model you get a worse battery
Except you don't get a worse battery, that's the crazy part. The base/cheaper model gets the better battery than the expensive model.
The lower-end 13-inch base MacBook Pro gets a 54.5w/hr battery, and only drives one screen. The higher-end 13-inch touchbar MacBook Pro only gets a 49.2w/hr battery, and has to drive two screens. - https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ Presumably the TouchBar takes up enough space that they had to reduce the battery size to compensate.
So, not only do you have a touch bar you (probably) don't want, wasting battery life you'd rather keep, you also have smaller total battery capacity too. The lineup goes out of it's way to double-punish the more expensive product.