MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros

Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by whatever1 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:28AM (#17514233)

Not a MacBook user, but being in a US university campus for almost 5 years now there is one change that I noticed with the latest crop of Macbooks. Everyone seems to carry their chargers. 2-3 years ago really I don't remember any Mac user carrying a charger.

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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by gschier on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:14AM (#17514801)

The new laptops have much worse battery life under load. I have the 13" non-touchbar (best battery life) and, with light work, I can get about 7 hours. However, if I'm doing anything CPU-intensive that goes down to 3 or 4. I think it's even worse with the dedicated GPUs.

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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by whatever1 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:48AM (#17515140)

I guess that unpredictable battery life is way worse than short battery life, in terms of battery anxiety.

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Re:MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for ... by cshenton on Thursday July 12, 2018 @09:38AM (#17514358)

Likely because a new MacBook is no longer backwards compatible with the last 3-5 iterations of chargers.

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